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Jamestown
Jamestown, Virginia was the first permanent English settelment in the New World. It was founded by the London Company in 1607 for the purposes of making profits. -
Virginia House of Burgesses
It was the first legislative assemby of elected representatives in North America. It was established by the Virginia Company, who the body part of an effort to encourage English craftmens to settle in North America and to make conditions in the colony more agreeable for its current inhabitants. -
Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower Compact, signed by 41 English colonists on the ship Mayflower on November 11, 1620, was the first written framework of government established in what is now the United States. -
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. -
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. Most people executed were women. -
Trial of John Peter Zenger
He was accused of Libel, or opposing his government with published information in 1733. Andrew Hamilton defended Zenger and got Zenger out of it all. Which means, he was found not guilty. -
French and Indian War
The colonies of British America and New France was whom the war was fought between. Both countries were supported by their by Great Britain and France, as well as Native American allies. It lasted from 1754-1763. It resulted in a British win. -
Proclimation of 1763
It was issued by King George III after Great Britains acquisition of Fench territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War. It forbidded all settlers from settling along a certain line drawn along the Appalachain Mountains. -
Stamp Act
It was passed by the British Parliament. The new tax was impsed on all American Colonists and required them to pay a tax on every peiece of printed paper that they used. -
Quartering Act
The British Parliament finally passed a Quartering Act. The Act stated that troops could only be quartered in barracks and if there wsn't enough space in the barracks then they were to be quartered in public houses. -
Declatory Act
Parliament agreed to repeal the Stamp Act and then passed the Declatory Act. -
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre happened on March 5, 1770 and the British Army soldiers killed the male citizens and injured six others. It is also known as the King Street incident. -
Tea Act
This act would be the last spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston. The act was not intended to raise revenue in the American colonies, but in fact imposed no new taxes. -
The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Pary was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston. Some demonstators disguised as American Indians destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the Est India Company, in the deliance of the Tea Act. -
The 1st Continental Congress
The first Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies that met at Carpenters Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. In was called in response to the intolerable acts. -
The 2nd Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun. -
The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence was issued on July 4, 1776. On July 4, 1776, Congress approved the final test of the Declaration but it wasn't signed until August 2, 1776.
