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Jan 1, 1517
PROTESTANT REFORMATION
The Protestant Reformation was a major 16th century European movement aimed initially at reforming the beliefs and practices of the Roman Catholic Church -
JAMESTOWN
First successful colony established in the new world by the British -
VIRGINIA HOUSE OF BURGESS
Represented the first form of democracy ever to be created in the New world. -
SALEM WITCH TRIALS
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts. -
FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR
War bewteen the french and british with help from the Indians also know as the seven years war. -
BOSTON MASSACRE
The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars on March 5, 1770. -
BOSTON TEA PARTY
In 1773, a group of Massachusetts patriots, protesting the monopoly on tea importation, seized 342 chests of tea and threw them into Boston harbor. -
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
The Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the 13 American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. -
LIOUSIANA PURCHASE
Territory aqcuired from France in it's attempts to pay of debt by selling its land and doubling Americas size. -
QUAKERS
The Religious Society of Friends is a movement that began in England in the 17th century. Members of this movement are informally known as Quakers
