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Virgina Company landed on Jamestown Island.
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Governor George Yeardley immediately gave notice that the Virginia colony would establish a legislative assembly. This was called the House of Burgesses.
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THis was an armered rebellion against Governor William Berkeley Led by Nathaniel Bacon.
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This was the execution of 20 people, mostly women accused of witchcraft.
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He was accused of Libel which means opposing the goverenment.
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Was known as the "seven years" war. The war was fought between the colonies of British America and New France. Fought over land.
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King Geroga the 3rd made the rule no colonial settelment west of the Apps.
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British Parliment set in place an act which made all American colonies pay taxes on every peice of paper they used.
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The act saided that troops could only be hiused in barracks and if there wasn't enough space in barracks then they were to be housed in public houses.
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This act repealed the Stamp Act. It stated American Colonies were taxed the same as people in Great Britian.
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Many American Colonist where throwing snow balls, sticks, and rocks at the Red coats guarding a building. The Red Coats responded by firing on unarmer citizens. Killing 5 and wounding 6.
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Their was a large amount of tea that was sold at very low prices which under cut the market of the American Colonies.
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American Colonist dressed as Native Americans and threw over tons of tea into the harbor.
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The first Continental Congress met in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia.
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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.
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Stated the thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire.
