Salutary Neglect: British Crown policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws meant to keep British colonies obedient to England.

By annabethswan

  • Settling of Jamestown

    104 English men and boys arrived in North America to start a settlement, they picked Jamestown, Virginia for their settlement, which was named after their King, James I.

  • Virginia House of Burgesses

    With its origin in the first meeting of the Virginia General Assembly at Jamestown in July 1619, the House of Burgesses was the first democratically-elected legislative body in the British American colonies.

  • Mayflower Compact

    set of rules for a self-government established by the English settlers who traveled to the New World on the Mayflower.

  • Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock

    traditional site of disembarkation of William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims who founded Plymouth Colony in 1620.

  • Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

    The Fundamental Orders were adopted by the Connecticut Colony council. The fundamental orders describe the government set up by the Connecticut River towns, setting its structure and powers. They wanted the government to have access to the open ocean for trading.

  • Bacon’s Rebellion

    Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley. The immediate cause of the rebellion was Governor William Berkeley's refusal to retaliate for a series of Native American attacks on frontier settlements.

  • English (British) Bill of Rights-

    The Bill of Rights, is an Act of the Parliament of England that deals with constitutional matters and sets out certain basic civil rights.

  • Glorious Revolution

    The Glorious Revolution, also called the Revolution of 1688, was the overthrow of King James II of England by a union of English Parliamentarians with the Dutch stadtholder William III, Prince of Orange, who was James's nephew and son-in-law.

  • Salem Witch Trials

    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.

  • Iroquois Confederation (constitution)

    The law was written on wampum belts, conceived by Dekanawidah, known as the Great Peacemaker, and his spokesman Hiawatha. The original five member nations ratified this constitution near modern-day Victor, New York, with the sixth nation being added in 1722.

  • John Peter Zenger

    he was accused of libel-when you published information that was opposed to the government.