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First British colony on the American continent.
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First legislative assembly in the colonies.
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This was the first governing document of the Plymouth Colony, and it acted as a model for the Constitution
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Armed rebellion in which backcountry settlers protested the lack of action by the government to punish Indian attacks.
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A wave of hysteria hit the Massachusetts colony as the colonists began convicting people of witchcraft. This was likely due to the colonists' need of a scapegoat due to their economic depression and disease.
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This was a royal proclamation that decreed that the colonists were not to expand West. This was to avoid conflict with the Indians.
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Lowered taxes on molasses but began to enforce the collection of taxes for sugar products.
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Ordered the colonists to purchase stamped paper from the British that was to be taxed, and this caused issues with the colonists due to their lack of say in their taxation.
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Decreed that colonists had to house British troops and allowed troops to house themselves in uninhabited buildings.
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Series of British acts that placed taxes on colonial imports.
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British soldiers killed five colonists while they were under attack by the colonists.
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Colonists' means for maintaining communication lines prior to the Revolutionary War.
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The British monopolized the East India Tea Company's tea in the colonies, not to raise revenue from the colonists, but to raise money for the company.
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A group of colonists dressed up as American Indians and dumped British tea into the Boston harbor.
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Met in response to the Intolerable Acts, and organized colonial protest to the acts.
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A series of restrictions on the colonists set into effect due to the Boston Tea Party. It further angered the colonists and set the tone for the Revolutionary War.
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The first battle of the Revolutionary War.
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The colonists' attempt at retaining peace and unity with the British
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This was the document of which the colonists severed their political ties with Britain, and they stated their reasons for doing so.
