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American Revolution
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Jamestown
The founding of America's first permanant English colony. -
Virginia House of Burgesses
First meeting of the Virginia House of Burgesses. -
Bacon's Rebellion
Nathaniel Bacon orders his rebels to lay seige to the capitol. -
Salem Witch Trials
Series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft. -
John Peter Zenger
His libel suit established the first very important victory for freedom of the press in the English colonies of North America. -
French and Indian War
The beginning of the war between the colonies of British America and New France. -
French and Indian War
The end of the war between the colonies of British America and New France. -
Proclamation of 1763
Issued by King George III following Great Britian's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years War, in which if forbade settlers from settling past a line drawn along the Applicaians. -
Stamp Act
Passed by British Parliment to empose tax on every paper good they used. -
Quartering Act
Required colonists to provide any British soldier with any needed accomidations or housing. -
Declaratory Act
Parliment agreed to repeal the Stamp Act on the condition that the Declaratory Act was passed. -
Boston Massacre
British Army Soldiers killed five men and injured six others. -
Tea Act
The act was not intended to raise any revenue in the American colonies, and in fact imposed no new tax laws. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston. -
1st Continential Congress
Met in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia. All colonies sent delegates except for Georgia. -
2nd Continental Congress
The 2nd Continental Congress was a convention of delagates of the 13 colonies that started meeting soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun. -
Declaration of Independence
Declared the colonies as single independant states that did not affiliate themselves with the British Crown.
