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Jamestown
Lodnon Comany Settles Jamestown -
Virginia House of Burgesses
Established in 1619 so colonists could make their own laws. Becomes the first representative government in AMerica -
Mayflower Complact
The Mayflower Compact hels establish America's ideas on self-government and majority -
Bacon's Rebellion
Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion let by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governer William Berkeley. About a thousand Virginians of all classes rose up in arms against Berkeley. -
Salem Witch Trials
Serveral young Puritan girls seem bewitched. Over 100 people (mostly women) are arrested and tried for witchcraft. 20 are executed for witchcraft, most by hanging. -
Trials of John Peter Zenger
Zenger voiced his opinions of the colnail governor William Cosby. He was charged by Richard Bradley for libel in Agust of 1735 -
French and Indian War
The war was fought between the colonies of British America and New France. Most of the fighting between France and Britain ended in 1760 -
Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 forbade all settlers from settling past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. It was issued by King George III following Great Britain's acquistion of French terriotry in North America. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain that imposed a direct tax on the colonies of British America.The Tax required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London. -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Act required local governments of American colonies to provide British soldiers with any needed accommodations or housing. -
Declaratory Act
An Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act and the changing and lessening of the sugar act. -
Boston Massacre
British Amry soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others.This incident was heavily propagandized by leading patriots to fuel animosity toward the British authoriites. -
Tea Act
This act would launch the final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston. The act objective was to reduce the massive surplus of tea held by the finacially troubled. -
Boston Tea Party
American demonstrators destoyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East Inia Company in defiance of the Teac Act. They boarded the ships and threw the chests of tea in the Boston Harbor. -
1st Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that me on September 5 to Ovtoer 26 at Carpenters Hall in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. -
Second Continental Congress
A convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775. It succeeded the First Continental Congress. -
Declaration of Independence
Announced that the thirteen American colonies regareded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states no longer a part of the British Empire. They formed a new nation, The United States of America.
