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First permanent English settlement in North America.
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With its origin in the first meeting of the virginia general assembly at Jamestown, it was the first democratically-elected legislative body in the British American colonies.
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First colonial settlement in New England. Puritan Separatist Pilgrims sailed in on the Mayflower and settled in Massachusetts.
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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 set up.
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The Maryland Toleration Act was a law mandating religious tolerance for Trinitarian Christians.
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An armed rebellion by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkely.
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The overthrow of King James II of England by a union of English Parliaments.
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A British law passed by the parliament of Great Britain that declared the rights and liberties of people.
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His case was an important step toward freedom for American colonists.
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The colonies of British America against New France. It ended the Treaty of Paris
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A plan to create a unified government for the thirteen colonies, suggested by Benjamin Franklin, a delegate from Pennsylvania, at the Albany congress in New York.
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After the French and Indian War, King George III stopped all settlement past a line drawn along the appalachian mountains.
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Two acts of of British Parliament in the local governments 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. 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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Act of the parliament of Great Britain to reduce the massive amount of tea.
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Political protest by the sons of liberty in Boston, Massachusetts.
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A meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies.
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All american colonists were required to pay tax on every peice of print paper they used.
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Managed the colonial war effort and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence.
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A statement adopted by the second continental congress meeting at Independence Hall.
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Negotiated between the United States and Great Britain, ended the revolutionary war and recognized american independence.
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A series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts.
