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The Mayflower lands at Plymouth Rock
The Mayflower Landed at Plymouth Harbor in 1620, after stopping near Provincetown. Based on oral tradition, Plymouth Rock was the site where William Bradford and the other Pilgrims first settled foot on land. Bradford is the governor of Plymouth Colony for around 30 years and is credited with establishing what we now call Thanksgiving. -
Pennsylvania becomes a Colony
Charles the second of Great Britain permitted the Region of Pennsylvania to William Penn to settle a debt of £16,000 that the king owed to William Penn’s father. William Penn founded an exclusive colony that provided a place of religious freedom for Quakers.aka Pennsylvania -
The French and Indian WarThe French and Indian War
The French and Indian War started in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war ended with Britain owning a large amount of North America’s Land, but having a major amount of national debt with £133 million in 1763, nearly double the amount of the British national debt before, with only £75 million in 1756. -
The Sugar Act
a revenue raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain on 5 April 1764 British legislation aimed at ending the smuggling trade in sugar and molasses from the French and Dutch West Indies and at providing increased revenues to fund larged British Empire responsibilities following the French and Indian War. -
The Currency Act
The Currency Act is one of the Parliament of Great Britain acts that regulated paper money provided by the colonies of British America. The act was desired to defend the British merchants, and the creditors from being paid to take exception to colonial currency.The policy formed tension between colonies and The Great Britain, and was specified as an injustice by the colonists early in the American Revolution. -
The Stamp Arc
England wanted to pay their troops in the colonies, so they passed the Stamp Act. It put a tax on papers, documents, and other stuff. If the colonists didn’t pay, they were punished unfairly without a jury. The colonists hated this act. For them, it was an example of “taxation without representation.” -
The Quartering Act
The commanders found it hard to persuade the assemblies of some uncooperative colonies to pay for the housing of the soldiers sent to fight FrenchOnce the war ended, The King’s Advisor decided that some of the British troops should stay in America. Since war had left Britain with a huge national debt, it's important that the Colonies shall pay their share of keeping the mens inAmerica. The Real reason for British soldiers was not for defense, but to enforce new tax policies. -
The Townshend Revenue Act
Passed by the British Parliament in 1767, that tax goods imported to the colonies, but don't have representation in parliament, saw the act as unfair. The British sent soldiers to the colonies to enforce the new law, building tension between England and the American colonies in the run up to The American Revolution war. The French and Indian war to the colonists has been slight compared to England's debt. The British Parliament put out a bunch of tax on the colonies for raising revenue. -
The Boston Massacre
Boston Massacre, a deadly riot that happened on March 5th, 1770, at King street, Boston. The Boston Massacre started with a street brawl between the American Colonist, but then quickly time to time, it turned in to Chaos, Blood, Murder, Slaughter. The conflict Energized the anti-British sediment and made a way for The American Revolution -
The Boston Tea Party
A Political protest occurred at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston, angry at Britain for imposing taxation without representation, Dumped 342 chests of tea imported by the British East India Company into the harbor. This event was the first Major act of defence to British rule over the colonists. It showed the Britains that Americans wouldn’t take taxation and tyranny sitting down, and will rally the American patriots across the Colonies. -
The FIrst Continental Congress
After the colonists are feeling like England is being unfair, and they want justice. So they wanted to gather together to discuss what to do in England, THey met in Pennsylvania and invited representatives from every colony. The colonist wrote a letter of grievances to the king, but he didn’t listen -
Patrick Henry’s “Give me Liberty or give me Death” speech
“Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death“. Means that he would only live with Liberty, if he does not have liberty, then he would rather die than live without it.Henry believing that the liberty the Americans appreciate so much was under great threat from The British,and for that they must be prepared to fight for their liberty. -
The Ride of Paul Revere
As Longfellow's poem presented.Paul Revere got out of his home in Boston's North End, and differed across Back Bay past throughout the British frigate H.M.S.(aka. His or Her Majesty’s Ship) Somerset, and rode on the horseback to the Mystic Village, which is now present day Medford. -
The Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress functioned as a de facto national government at the outset of the Revolutionary War by raising militaries, managing the strategy, appointing ambassadors, and writing appeals such as the Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms and the Olive Branch Petition. -
George Washington named Commander in Chief
The Continental Congress commissioned George Washington as Commander in Chief of the Continental Army on June 19, 1775. Washington was selected over other candidates such as John Hancock based on his previous military experience and the hope that a leader from Virginia could help unite the colonies.
