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The first permanent English settlement in the Americas.
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The House of Burgesses was the first democratically-elected legislative body.
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Site of disembarkation of William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims who founded Plymouth Colony in 1620.
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The first agreement for self-government to be created and enforced in America.
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A Constitution for the colonial government of Hartford.
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Allowed freedom of worship to nonconformists.
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An armed rebellion against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
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The overthrow of King James II of England.
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Declared the rights and liberties of the people after the Glorious Revolution
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Series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts.
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He was accused of libel in 1734 by William Cosby, the governor of New York, but the jury acquitted Zenger, who became a symbol for freedom of the press.
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It pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France.
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The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies
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Forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.
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Imposed tax on all paper.
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Allowed for the British soldiers to stay in the colonists houses
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It stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain.
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British Army soldiers shot and killed people while under attack by a mob.
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The objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the British East India Company
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The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts.
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The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies
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The Second Congress managed the Colonial war effort and moved incrementally towards independence
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Announced that the thirteen American colonies regarded themselves as thirteen independent sovereign states, instead of being under British rule.
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Ended the revolutionary war and recognized American independence.
