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Jamestown
Founded in 1607 and was first permanent English settlement. -
Virgina House of Burgesses
Was the first representative government in America and made so colonists could make there own laws -
Bacon’s Rebellion
Nathaniel Bacon led over 1000 men from western part of VA to jamestown. He felt the governor had not protected them from Indian raids and felt excluded from wealthy “planter” class -
Salem Witch Trials
Several young puritan girls seem bewitched and caused a big uoroar. Eventually over 100 people (mostly women) are arrested and tried for witchcraft and 20 are executed for witchcraft, mostly by hanging -
John Peter Zenger
A German immagrent who published newspaper and was famous for his trial. He published stories about the corrupt governor and the governor had him arrested and put on trial. John ended up winning and this was the first sign of freedom of press which later would become part of the 1st ammendment -
French and Indian War
Lasted from 1756 1763. A war between the French and Indians and Spainish against the Britiish and Prussia. The french moved into the Ohio River Valley and caused many conflicts which evolved into a war. In the end Britain won and recieved Florida and Canada. -
Proclamation of 1763
King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, in which it forbade all settlers from settling past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Act of 1765 required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies. If the barracks were too small to house all the soldiers, then localities were to accommodate the soldiers in local inns, livery stables, ale houses, victualling houses, and the houses of sellers of wine. -
Stamp Act
tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed -
Declatory Act
It stated that the British Parliament’s taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain. -
Boston Mascre
The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars on March 5, 1770. It was the culmination of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since Royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts in October 1768 to enforce the heavy tax burden imposed by the Townshend Acts. -
Boston Tea Party
a group of colonists protest thirteen years of increasing British oppression, by attacking merchant ships in Boston Harbor. In retaliation, the British close the port, and inflict even harsher penalties. -
Tea Act
the final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston. The tea act was not intended to raise revenue in the American colonies but to bail out the floundering East India Company -
1st Continental Congress
a meeting in Philadelphia where all states sent delagates except georgia. they met to try to find a solution to there problems with Britain and to show that they could be dependent -
2nd Contential Congress
With the bloody fights at Concord and Lexington fresh in their minds, the delegates of twelve of the thirteen Colonies came together in Philadelphia to draw up a statement of positions in regards to the actions of the British Parliament. Georgia did not send a delegate until much later. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson and adopted by the Second Continental Congress, states the reasons the British colonies of North America sought independence in July of 1776.
