Colonial Timeline

By MaKayla White
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    Colonial Timeline

  • Jamestown

    Jamestown
    It was a settlement in the Colony of Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.

  • Virginia House of Burgesses

    Virginia House of Burgesses
    It was an assembly of elected representatives from Virginia that met from 1643 to 1776. The democrats elected legeslative body was the first kind in English North America.

  • Mayflower Compact

    Mayflower Compact
    The first permanent European settlement in New England, Plymouth was founded by a group of religious separatists who arrived on the Mayflower in 1620.

  • Plymouth Rock

    Plymouth Rock
    It is the traditional site of disembarking of William Bradfford and the Mayflower Pilgrims who founded Plymouth Colony

  • Bacon's Rebellin]on

    Bacon's Rebellin]on
    Was an armed rebellion in1676 by Virginia settlers led by young Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.

  • Glorious Revolution

    Glorious Revolution
    It was also called the Revolution of 1688, was the overthrow of King James II of England by a union od English Parliamentarians with the Dutch stadholder William III of Orange-Nassau.

  • Toleration Act

    Toleration Act
    Act of Parliament granting freedom of worship to Nonconformists (i.e., diffenting Protestants such as Baptist and Congregationalists).

  • English Bill of Rights

    English Bill of Rights
    The Bill of Rights is an Act of the Parliament of England passed of December 16, 1689. It was a restatement in statutory form of the Decaration of Right presented by the Convention Parliament to William and Mary in March 1689, inviting them to become joint sovereigns of England.

  • Salem Witch Trials

    Salem Witch Trials
    It was a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft incolonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May !963.

  • John Peter Zenger

    John Peter Zenger
    He was a German American printer, ublisher, editor, and journalist in New York City.
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    French and Indian War

    It is the American name for the North American theater of the Seven Year's War. The same war is reffered to in Canadian history as the war of conquest.

  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763
    It was issued by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French Territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War in which it forbade settlers from settling past a line drawn along the Appalachain Mountians.

  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act
    It was an act of the British in1765 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on mewspapers and legal and commercial documents.

  • Quatering Act

    Quatering Act
    Parliamen enacted then to order local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers woth anything they needed.

  • Declatory Act

    Declatory Act
    It was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765.

  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    It was a street fight that occured on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks and a squad of british soldiers.

  • Tea Act

    Tea Act
    It passed by Parliament May 10, 1773, would launch the final spark to the revolutionary movement in the American Colonies, and in fact inposed no new taxes.

  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    It was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston.

  • 1st Continrntal Congress

    1st Continrntal Congress
    It was a convention of delegates from twelve colonies(Georgia was not there) that met on September 5, 1774, at Carprnters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, warly in the American Revolution.

  • 2nd Continental Congress

    2nd Continental Congress
    It was a convention of delegates from the 13 colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun.

  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence
    It is a statement adpoted by the Continental Congress, which announced that the 13 American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer part of the British Empire.

  • Treaty of Paris

    Ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain on one side and the United States of America and its other allies on the other side.