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The first permanent English settlement in North America, founded in 1607 in Virginia.
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The Virginia House of Burgesses was the first democratically-elected legislative body in British North America.
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The Pilgrims who sailed on the Mayflower are said to have stepped ashore when they landed in America in 1620.
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Was the first agreement for self-government to be created and enforced in America.
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It was a Constitution for the colonial government of Hartford and was similar to the government that Massachusetts had set up.
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The Maryland Toleration Act, also known as the Act Concerning Religion, was a law mandating religious tolerance for Trinitarian Christians.
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Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
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The Glorious Revolution, also called the Revolution of 1688, was the overthrow of King James II of England by a union of English Parliamentarians
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Was a British Law, passed by the Parliament of Great Britain in 1689 that declared the rights and liberties of the people.
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The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft.
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John Peter Zenger was a German American printer and journalist in New York City. Zenger printed The New York Weekly Journal.
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The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies, suggested by Benjamin Franklin.
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The French and Indian War comprised the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War.
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The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War.
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Was the first internal tax levied directly on American colonists by the British government.
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The Quartering Act is a name given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations and housing.
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Declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act.
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The Boston Massacre, known as the Incident on King Street by the British, was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers shot and killed people while under attack by a mob.
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The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company.
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Was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies who met from September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania early in the American Revolution.
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The Second Congress managed the Colonial war effort and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.
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A date that John Adams believed would be “the most memorable epocha" in the history of America. The Declaration of Independence is defined as the formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain.
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The Treaty of Paris of 1783, negotiated between the United States and Great Britain, ended the revolutionary war and recognized American independence.
