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The first permanent English settlement in North America. Founded in Virginia.
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The first democratically-elected legislative body in British North America.
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A rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts, where the Pilgrims who sailed on the Mayflower are said to have stepped ashore when they landed in America.
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Bound the pilgrims to live in a civil society according to their own laws.
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An early colonial constitution that established the rule of law that governed Wethersfield, Windsor, and Hartford.
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An armed rebellion against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
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William of Orange took the english throne from James II.
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Granting freedom to worship.
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Guaranteed certain rights to the citizens of England.
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A series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft.
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He attacked Governor William Cosby and was jailed for libel.
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A plan to create a unified government for the thirteen colonies.
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A series of military engagements between Britain and France in North America. Seven Years' War.
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The Proclamation was an attempt to establish a western border of the 13 colonies in America. That border was the Appalachian Mountains.
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A tax on the legal recognition of documents.
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Forced local governments to provide provisions and housing to British soldiers stationed in the 13 colonies.
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declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act.
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British soldiers in Boston opened fire on a group of American colonists killing five men.
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The objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive.
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A raid on three British ships where Boston colonists disguised as Indians, there chests of tea into the harbor to protest taxes on tea.
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a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies
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A convention of delegates from the thirteen colonies.
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A formal statement declaring freedom of the thirteen colonies from Great Britain.
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Ended the Revolutionary War.
