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Jamestown
America's first permanent English colony, in Virginia in 1607. -
Virginia House of Burgesses
The first representative government in America was the Virginia House of Burgesses. Colonists could make their own law and be govern by themselves. -
Bacon's Rebellion
Nathaniel Bacon led over 1,000 men from the western part of Virginia to Jamestown. He felt that the governor had not protected them from Indian raids and felt excluded from wealthy "planter" class. -
Salem Witch Trials
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearing and prosecutions of people accused of practicing witchcractf in colonial Massachusetts. Most of the accused and the executed were women. Over 100 women were arrested and tried for witch. -
John Peter Zenger
John Peter Zenger arrived in New York from Germany in 1710 and served an apprenticeship to William Bradford, printer of the New York Gazette. On November 17, 1734, Zenger was arrested and imprisoned for sedituous libel. Although it wasn't Zenger who had written or edited the pieces that outraged the Governor, as publisher he could be held liable under law. -
French and Indian War
The French and Indian war was a battle for complete dominance of America between the English and the French. The French only came to hunt and trade while the English came to settle for a new life and new beginning. The Natives allied with the French to fight against the English. The war ended in 1763 with the Treaty of Paris and English as the permenant dominance of America. -
Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 was issued after the French and Indian War in America. It forbids settlers to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains to safeguard Indian lands and territories and repaying the Native American Indians who have helped the British during the war. -
Stamp Act
The act made every newspaper, pamphlet, and other public and legal documents have a Stamp, or a British seal, on it. But the stamp cost money and the colonist didn't think that they should have to pay something that they have been doing for years, and they responded in force, called the Stamp Act Congress. -
Quatering Act
The act force colonists to house and feed soldiers who were serving in North America. That included bedding, cooking utensils, firewood, beer or cider and candles. -
Declatory Act
The Declaratory Act raised no new tax, placed no restriction or requisition on the colonial assemblies, in fact they did not require anything from the colonists at all. They only want an understanding their subordinate role to the British crown and parliament. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight between a patriot mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and and sticks and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed and the presence of British soldiers was increasingly unwelcomed. -
Tea Act
This act was designed to prop up the East India Company which was floundering financially and burdened with 18 million pounds of unsold tea. -
Boston Tea Party
Patriot leader Samuel Adams along with 60 members of the anti-British Sons of Liberty went onboard the ship disguised as Mohawk Indians and dump the tea chest into the Boston harbor. The was called the Boston Tea Party. -
1st Continental Congress
The 1st continental congress brought together representatives from each of the colonies, except Georgia, to discuss their response to the British "Intolerable Acts" and their resistance to new taxes. -
2nd Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun. The second Congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776 declaring that the 13 American colonies will be indenpent from Britian and live independently under their own government and laws.
