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colony Timeline

  • Christopher Columbus
    1492

    Christopher Columbus

    He thought he landed in the west indies but he landed in north america
  • Jamestown settlement

    Jamestown settlement

    people established a colony that was named after there king who is king James I
  • The House of Burgesses

    The House of Burgesses

    The first representative assembly in America
  • Mayflower

    Mayflower

    They ment to go to the Jamestown settlement but landed north in a place called Plymouth Rock
  • First Thanksgiving

    First Thanksgiving

    The pilgrims celebrated there first Harvest and it went on for three days
  • French and Indian war

    French and Indian war

    British beat France for control of Northeastern North America
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    British troops fire into a mob killing 5 men
  • Boston tea party

    Boston tea party

    Colonial patriots disguise as Indian Board ships and trow 300 crates of tea overboard
  • First continental congress

    First continental congress

    56 delegates representing 13 colonies meets in philadephia
  • Revolutionary war

    Revolutionary war

    when America and the British started a revolution for taxes