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The settlement was located within the country of Tsenacommacah. Jamestown served as the capital of the colony for 83 years, from 1616 until 1699.
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The Virginia House of Burgesses was the first legislative assembly of elected representatives in North America.The House was established by the Virginia Company,
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The mayflower compact signed by 41 English colonists on the ship Mayflower on November 11, 1620. The mayflower compact was the first written framework of government.
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Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676. it is located in jamestown.
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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 women.
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Johann Peter Zenger was born in 1697.He was a German American printer, publisher, editor, and journalist in New York City.
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The Declaratory Act, was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The Declaratory act accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765
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The French and Indian War was 1754–1763T.The war was fought between the colonies of British America and New France,
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The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763.
It eventually ensured that British culture and laws were applied in Upper Canada after 1791 -
The Quartering Act is a name given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the 18th century. Parliament enacted them to order local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations or housing.
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The Boston Massacarewhich British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others. The incident was heavily propagandized by leading patriots, such as Paul Revere and Sam Adams to fuel animosity toward the British authorities
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The tea act was an act of theParliament of Great Britain. The tea act granted the Company the right to directly ship its tea to North America
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On December 16, 1773, Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. The British government responded harshly and the episode escalated into the American Revolution.
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The first 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.
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The stamp act was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain that imposed a direct tax on the colonies of British America.The stamp tax had to be paid in valid British currency, not in colonial paper money
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The Declaration of Independence is the usual name of a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. The sources and interpretation of the Declaration have been the subject of much scholarly inquiry.The Declaration justified the independence of the United States by listing colonial grievances against King George III.
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The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It began soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun.
