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JamesTown
A group of roughly 100 members of a joint venture called the virginia company founded the first permanent english settlement in north carolina on the banks of jamestown river. -
Virginia House Of Burgesses
The House Of Burgesses was the first democratically-elected legislative body in the British American Colonies. -
Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower Compact, signed by 41 english colonists on the ship Mayflower on November 11, 1620 was the first written framework of government established in what is now the united states. -
Bacon's rebellion
The colonies disorganized frontier political structure, combined with accumulating grievances (including leaving bacon out of his inner circle, refusing to allow bacon to be a part of his fur trade with the native americans. -
Salem Witch Trials
The Salem Witch Trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. The trials resulted in the executions of twenty people, most of them were women. -
John Peter Zenger
John was German american printer, publisher, editor, and journalist in New York City. Zenger printed the new york weekly journal. He was a defendant in a landmark legal case in American jurisprudence, known as the zenger trial. -
The French and Indian War
The french and indian war (1754-1763) was the north american theater of the worldwide seven years' war. The war was fought between the colonies of British America and New France, with both sides supported by military units from their parents countries of Great Britain and France, as well as native american allies. -
Proclamation of 1763
The royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued october 7, 1763 by King George III following Great Britain's acquuistion of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War'Seven Years' War, in which it forbade all settlers from settling past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
Stamp Act
An act of the British parliament in 1765 was exacted revenue from the American Colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commerical documents. Colonial opposition led to the act's repeal in 1766 and helped encourage the revolutionary movement against the British Crown. -
Quartering Act
Is a name given to minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the 18th century. Parliament enacted them to order local governemts of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations or housing. -
Declatory Act
Declaration by the British Parliament that accoompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act II. It stated that the British Parliament's taxing authoity was the same in America as in Great Britain. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occured in March 5, 1770, between a "Patriot" mob, thrrowing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colnists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act of 1773 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. Its principle overt objectives was to reduce the massive surplus of tea held by the financially troubled British East Indian Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive. -
Boston Tea Party
An Act of definance toward the British governement by American colonists it took place in 1773, before the Revolutionary War. The governement in London had given a British company the right to sell tea directly to the colonies, thereby undercutting American merchants. -
1st Continential Congress
The First Continential Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve to the thirteen colonies that met September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
2nd Continential Congress
The 2nd Continential Congress was a convention of delegates from the thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylavnia, soon after warfarein the American Revolutionary War had begun. -
Declaration Of Independence
The fundamental document establishing the United States as a nation, adopted on July 4, 1776. The declaration was ordered and approved vy the Continential Congress and written largely by Thomas Jefferson.
