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Jamestown
Jamestown was the first permenant english selttlement in the New World. At first the colonny was very weak and small and contiued to be so for a while. The thing that turned the colony around was tabacco the first cash crop. -
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Jamestown through Declaration of Independence
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Viginia House of Burgesses
This was the fist democratically elecected legislative body in the United States. The house was acted as a government for more than 150 years. It was finally dissolved in 1776. -
Bacon's Rebellion
Bacon's Rebellion was a rebellion against the governer of Virginina. This was lead by Nathaniel Bacon. -
Salem Witch Trials
A series of trials that wereheald to accuse or set free people accused of witch craft. -
John Peter Zenger
He was a German American Printer who was the defendant of the Zenger trial. -
French Indian War
The French Indian War was obviously a war between the French and the Indians but it also had colonies of the British in America. -
Proclamation of 1763
This was a proclamation made by the King that forbade the people of America from settling of the Appalacian Mountains. -
Quartering Act
This was an act that forced colonists to let the soldiers stay in colonist housing and to be taken care of. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was a law that required all colonial residents to pay a stamp tax on virtually every printed paper including legal documents, bills of sale, contracts, wills, advertising, pamphlets, almanacs, and even playing cards and dice. -
Declatory Act
It went along with the stamp act to be able to tax people in America the same way as in Britain. -
Boston Massacre
This was a killing of five colonists in Boston. -
Tea Act
This was to decrease revenue and increase taxes in the colonies. -
Boston Tea Party
This was an act done by colonists who threw tea into the boston harbor. -
1st Conntinental Congress
A meeting between 12 of the 13 colonies representatives for the "Intolerable Acts" -
2nd Conntential Congress
A series of meetings between all thirteen colonies that preceeded the revoloutionary war by a few months. -
Declaration of Independance
The declaration of independance was the document that made The United States of America free from Great Britian and put us at war with them. The Declaration was signed by 56 people in all the first being John Hancock whos name is now used as a reference to a signature. The original draft was writen by Thomas Jefferson and was drafted 2 days later.
