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Founded by the British, Jamestown became the first permanent settlement.
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Started by Governor George Yeardley, this was the first legeslative assembly.
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This was an armed rebellion led by Nathaniel Bacon with the settlers of Virginia against the authority of Governer William Berkley.
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These were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people being accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts.
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John Peter Zenger was a German-American journalist, printer, publisher and editor. He printed the New York Weekly Journal and he was a defendant in a legal case in American Jurisprudence known as the Zenger Trial.
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This war was fought between the colonies of British America and New France and both sides were accompanied by military from their mother countries, Great Britain and France and also some Native American allies.
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This was issued by King George III following Great Britains accquiring of French land in North America after the French and Indian War. This forbid any settlers from settling over the mountains.
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This was passed by British Parliament and was issued to all American Colonists and required them to pay for every piece of printed paper that they used. Playing cards, legal documents, etc..
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British Parliament passed this and stated that troops could only be quartered in barracks and if there wasn't enough space in the barracks, they were to be quartered in houses and inns.
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This was passed to agreeing to appeal the Stamp Act.
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This event was where British Soldiers shot and killed 5 male civilians and injured 6 others in the streets of Boston, Massachusetts.
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Passed by British Parliament, the act was not intended to raise revenue in the American colonies, and in fact started no new taxes. It was designed to prop up the East India Company which had 18 million pounds of unsold tea.
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Political protest by the Sons of Liberty a group of colonists protest thirteen years of British oppression, by attacking merchant ships in Boston Harbor and dressing as Natives and throwing the tea into the Boston Harbor.
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This was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. Georgia did not attend.
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This 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.
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This was written and sent to Great Britain and approved for America's separation from British Power.
