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First permanent English settlement
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First legislative body in the colonies.
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Led to first self-governing colony in the Americas.
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Rebellion led by Nathaniel Bacon to protest Native American special treatment.
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Series of trials and executions against people accused of witchcraft in Massachusetts.
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War between British colonists and soldiers versus French and Native Americans.
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Ended French and Indian War and forbided the colonists from settling in the Ohio Valley.
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Tax on molasses. Aimed to stop the smuggling of foreign goods from the French and Dutch Indies.
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Tax on printed paper such as wills, deeds, newspapers, pamplets, playing cards, and dice.
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Law requiring colonists to provide British soldiers with room and food.
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Tax imposed by Charles Townshend on tea, glass, lead, paint, paper, and British china.
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Fight between mob of colonists and British soldiers. 11 colonists killed.
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Created by Samuel Adams in Massachusetts for intercolonial correspondence.
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Gave British East India Company exclusive rights to ship tea
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Colonists dressed up as Native Americans and threw the tea aboard British cargo ships overboard to protest tea tax.
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Boston Port Act (products couldn't be unloaded at Boston Port), Massachusetts Government Act (Regulated self-government and revoked charter), Administration of Justice Act (governor could send misbehaving colonists to Britain for trial), Quartering Act of 1774 (gave governor right to decide which houses soldiers would stay in) and Quebec Act (favored Catholics and took land from Massachusetts).
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Meeting of 12 delegates from 13 colonies, wrote the Olive Branch Petition.
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First battle of American Revolution, "the shot heard around the world".
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Letter to King of England, pleading for reconciliation between Britain and colonies.
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Written by Thomas Jefferson, announced the colonies' independence from Britain.
