Early America By frady124 1620 Pilgrims establish colony in Massachusetts 1630 1,000 puritans founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony 1680 The quakers establish in Pennsylvania 1760 Britain placed a number of heavy of taxes 1770 British soldiers fought with a mob of colonists 1773 a group of colonists staged the Boston Tea Party 1774 representative from most of the colonies met at the First Continental Congress 1775 fighting started when British troops marched to the towns of Lexington and Concord 1776 delegates from B of Britain's North American colonies met in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania where they held the second continental congress 1776 the Congress announced the declaration of independence 1781 American and French forces trapped british troops at Yorktown Virginia 1781 British surrender
