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Jamestown
First permanent English settlement -
Virginia House of Burgesses
First meeting place for the General Assembly of Jamestown. -
Bacon's Rebellion
Led by Nathaniel Bacon, Virginia settlers were armed and fought against Governor Wlliam Berkeley. -
Salem Witch Trials
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 women. -
John Peter Zenger
a German American printer, publisher, editor, and journalist in New York City. Zenger printed The New York Weekly Journal. He was a defendant in a legal case, known as the Zenger Trial. -
French and Indian War
The war was fought between the colonies of British America and New France, with both sides supported by military units from their parent countries of Great Britain and France, as well as Native American allies. (1754–1763) -
Proclamation of 1763
Issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition 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
Was a law that required all colonial residents to pay a stamp tax on virtually every printed paper including legal documents, bills, etc. -
Quartering Act
Parliament ordered local governments of the American colonies to house British Soldiers. -
Declaratory Act
Declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act. It stated that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain. Parliament had directly taxed the colonies for revenue in the Sugar Act (1764) and the Stamp Act (1765). -
Boston Massacre
Fight that occurred on the street on March 5, 1770, between patriots and British soldiers. More like an attack on the soldiers by the patriots. -
Tea Act
passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, would launch the final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston. The act was not intended to raise revenue in the American colonies, and in fact imposed no new taxes. -
Boston Tea Party
The Sons of Liberty and the Boston Tea Party. In 1771, a group of colonists protest thirteen years of increasing British taxes by attacking merchant ships in Boston Harbor. In retaliation, the British closed the ports . -
1st Continental Congress
Met in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia, from September 5, to October 26, 1774. Carpenter's Hall was also the seat of the Pennsylvania Congress. All of the colonies except Georgia sent delegates. -
2nd Continental Congress
Was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun. -
Declaration of Independence
Announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire.
