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A group of about 100 members of a joint venture called the Virginia Company founded the first English Settlement in North America on the banks of the James river.
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The first legislative assembly in the american colonies, The first assembly met in the church of jamestown.
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The traditional site, founded by the Mayflower Pilgrims in 1620. They did not refer to Plymouth Rock in any of their writings.
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it was the first agreement for self-government to be created and enforced in America. British ship with 102 passengers who called themselves pilgrims.
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It was a constitution for the colonial government of Hartford and was similar to the government Massachusetts had set up.
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Also known as the Act of Concerning Religion was a law mandating religious tolerance.
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was a armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia Settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of the Governor.
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with the joint monoarchy of his protestant daughter Mary, and her Dutch husband.
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it was a british law passed by the Parialment of Great Britian in 1689 that declared the rights and liberty to people.
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was a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial massachusetts.
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was a German American printer and journalist in New York City, he printed the New York weekly journal.
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to create a unified government for the 13 colonies, suggested by Benjamin Franklin.
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also known as the 7 years war lasted from 1756-1763 forming a chapter in the imperial struggle between Britain and France.
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by King George the 3 following Great britain's acquisition of French territory in North America.
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was the first internal tax directly on American colonist by the British Government. The act imposed a tax on all paper documents in the colonies.
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declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act.
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known as the incident on King Street by the British where they shot and killed people while under attack by a mob.
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was not to raise revenue from the colonies but to bail out the floundering East India Company, a key actor in the British economy.
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was a protest by the sons of liberty in boston massachusetts.
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is a name given to a minimum of two acts of British Parliament in the local governments of the American colonies.
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was a meeting of delegates from the twelve of the thirteen colonies.
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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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is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House.
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negotiated between the United States and Great Britain, ended the revolutionary war and recognized American independence.
