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Jamestown Founded
The first Permanent English empire was established to provide profits for britain -
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Road to Rev
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House of Burgesses
This colonial governing body allowed the colonists their first taste of self-government -
Mayflower Compacts
The puritan from the Plymouth colony (Mass.) decided to create their own laws, establishing the principle of majority rules -
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
First written constitution by a colony limited the power of government -
Triangular Trade
New england trades basic supplies with west indies for sugar and molasses, to make in to rum. African slaves were later transported from africa to New Endland colonies became Known as the Middle Passage, the trade was done mostly with no English government involvement -
Marland Toleration Act
Freedom of religion by law in the Maryland colony to Protestant and Catholic Christians (not Jewish) -
Navigation Acts
Britian sets shipping policies to stop smuggling goods in the Americas. -
John Peter Zenger
Zenger was accused of sedition and libel by a royal official who took offense to the newspaper man's criticism of limit on free expression. Zenger was put on trial in front of a colonial Jury who found him innocent due to the fact that the paper was truth, this decision is the basis for the fundamental American freedom of press -
The Great Awakening
Colonist began questioning the church, breaking away from the original religious order established in Europe -
French and Indian War
Endland and France have been warring off and on for over 100 years, this time going into the Ohio Valley and Canada. Eventually having Native Americans on both sides of the skirmish -
Albany Plan of Union
Ben Franklin's Attept to unite volunteer colonies from all colonies to establish a common defense. The paln however didnt work but it was the first time colonists planned to unite without british help -
Proclamation of 1763
In an attempt to settle Natives among the along the frontier, England banned all colonial settlements past the Appalachian Mountains -
Stamp Act
England's latest attempt to get money from the colonies comes the form of a direct tax on a variety of goods. Things ranging from legal documents to decks of cards. Causing colonial protest and boycotting british goods -
Boston Massacre
Tension between colonist and remaining army from the war has been high. Citizens felt the soldiers were spying on them, others resent the competition for local jobs, one shot into a wild crowd begans the massacre that left 5 dead colonist -
Tea act
England taxes tea -
Declaration of Independence
Colonist are finally free form british rule
