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Virginia House of Burgesses
The Virginia House of Burgesses was the first representative government group in the American colonies.
"...They conceive it is essential to British liberty that laws imposing taxes on the people ought not to be made without the consent of representatives chosen by themselves..."
"Avalon Project - Petition of the Virginia House of Burgesses to the House of Commons: December 18, 1764." Avalon Project - Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy. Web. 02 Feb. 2011. http://avalon.law.yale.edu -
Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of the Plymouth Colony, and it was signed November 11th 1620 by 41 of the 102 passengers on the Mayflower.
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"...And by Virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions, and Offices..."
"Avalon Project - Mayflower Compact : 1620." Avalon Project - Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy. Web. 02 Feb. 2011. http://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/mayflower.asp. -
French and Indian war starts
The war between France and Great Britain starts on American turf.
"America Prior to the French and Indian War." Map. Print. -
French and Indian War ends
The French and Indian war ends, and Great Britain takes over more land. -
Boston Tea Party
The Tar and Feathering of an Englishmen at the Boston Tea Party. Tar and Feathering is an extreme form of humiliation. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was imposed by the British to make American colonists pay on every piece of paper used.
"For every skin or piece of vellum or parchment, or sheet or piece of paper..a stamp duty of three pence."
"Avalon Project - Great Britain : Parliament - The Stamp Act, March 22, 1765." Avalon Project - Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy. Web. 04 Feb. 2011. http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/stamp_act_1765.asp. -
Boston Massacre
A few minutes after nine o'clock four youths, named Edward Archbald, William Merchant, Francis Archbald, and John Leech, jun., came down Cornhill together, and separating at Doctor Loring's corner, the two former were passing the narrow alley leading Mr. Murray's barrack in which was a soldier brandishing a broad sword of an uncommon size against the walls, out of which he struck fire plentifully.
"Full Text Version of the Account of The Boston Massacre." Archiving Early America: PWeb. 03 Feb. 2 -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
This picture is of the third part of The Battle of Lexington and Concord. It is called, The Battle of the Road.
The Battle of the Road. Digital image. History Central. Web. http://www.historycentral.com/revolt/Lexington.html. -
Declaration of Independence
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
"Declaration Of Independence- 1776." History Central. Web. 03 Feb. 2011. http://historycentral.com/documents/Decindependence.html.
