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Colonial Timeline
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Jamestown
Settlement established in the colony of Virginia. Jamestown was the first permanent settlement in the Americas. It was briefly abandonned in 1610. -
Virginia House of Burgesses
The Virginia House of Burgesses was the first legeslative group or elected representitives from Virginia. Each county sent 2 burgesses; towns could petition to send 1 representative. Most of the men were from the gentry class. -
Mayflower Compact
Written by Seperatist and signed aboard the Mayflower by most adult men. The document was an agreement on rules for the future Plymouth Colony since they were not going to be settling with the Virginia colonies. -
Plymouth Rock
Site where William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrams arrived and founded Plymouth County. -
Toloration Act
Law mandating religious tolerance for the trinitarian Christians. passed by the assembly of the Maryland Colony. Second law requiring religious toloration in the British Colonies. -
Bacon's Rebellion
Armed rebellion by Virginian settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon. The rebellion was against the governor WIlliam Berkeley. -
Glorious Revolution
The overthrow of King James II of England by a union of English Parliamentarians and Dutch stadtholder William III. Led to William III asending the throne of England. -
English Bill of Rights
Lays down limits and powers of the crown. Sets out the rights of Parliament like freedpm of speach. -
Salem Witch Trials
Women were accused as being witches and were executed. Others died in prison. -
John Peter Zenger
German American printer, publisher, and editor. He was a journalist for the New York Weekly Journal. -
French and Indian War
War between British colonies and France. -
Proclamation of 1763
Forbade settlers from settling past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains after the French and Indian War. -
Stamp Act
Direct taxes from British Parliament on the colonies. It required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp -
Quartering Act
Required the people in the colonies to provide anything needed by any British soldiers. Also having to feed the soldiers in the area. -
Declatory Act
The declaration stated that Parliament's authority was the same in America as in Britain. Made because of boycotts in the colonies against the Stamp Act. -
Boston Massacre
Was an incident in which British soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others -
Tea Act
Its principal over objective was to reduce the massive surplus of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its warehouses and to help the struggling company survive. -
Boston Tea Party
Was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty. Disguised as American Indians, they destroyed the supply of tea sent by the East India Company. They boarded the ships and threw the chests of tea into Boston Harbor. -
1st Continental Congress
Convention of delegates from twelve colonies at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. It was called in response to the passage of the Intolerable Acts. -
2nd Continental Congress
Was a convention of delegates from the 13 colonies that started meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun. -
Declaration of Independence
A statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. -
Treaty of Paris
Signed on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain and the United States of America and its allies.
