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English boys and girls arrived in North America and settled in Virginia. They named Jamestown after King James I. This settlement became the first permanent English settlement in North America.
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It was an assembly of elected representatives from Virginia. Each county sent two representatives down to make decisions for them. I
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The Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620. Had a little over 100 passengers coming to North America.
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Signed by 41 English colonist on the ship Mayflower. It was the first written framework that the goverment had in the New World. The compact was drafted to prevent dissent amongst Puritans and non-separatist Pilgrims who had landed at Plymouth a few days earlier.
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An act concerning Religion
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Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Viginian settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon. They were going against a rule by the governor. About a thousand Virginians of all classes rose up in arms against Berkeley, attacking Native Americans, chasing Berkeley from Jamestown, Virginia, and ultimately torching the capital.
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something to overthrow King James ll
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an Act the stated the rules an limits on the pwers of crown an sets out the rights of Parliament.
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Started over some girls being caught in the woods dancing and the people in the town were scared that they might be witches, The only way for the girls to get out of trouble was to snitch and tell on other people who may, or may not be apart of the whole thing. Hundreds of people were burned alive and later on the judge found out the whole thing was a lie from the beginning.
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case when Zenger said the judges were arbitrarily and he got charged wit libel.
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a war fought between the colonist and the British army.
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a war that lasted about 7 years. the war was fought between new france and britian americans
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signed in Paris of king george lll and representatives of the United States of America on 3 September 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War.
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done by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, in which it forbade all settlers from settling past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.
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British forced the colonist to pay tax for newspapers
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act forcing the colonist to provide food and shelter for any British soldier in the area
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this declaration was stating that the rules in Britian still applied to the Colonist
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passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, would launch the final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston. The act was not intended to raise revenue in the American colonies, and in fact imposed no new taxes.
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British army soldiers killed 5 male citizens and injured 6 others.
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the colonist ruined the whole supply of tea by dumping it in the Boston Harbor
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convention of delegates from 12 colonies that met at the Carpenters Hall in Philadelphia. they met briefly to consider options, including the an economic boycott of British trade.
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convention of delegates from the 13 colonies that started meeting in Philadelphia.
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when we declared freedom against Great Britain
