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Jamestown
Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement and founded by Captain John Smith -
Virginia House of Burgesses
The Virginia House of Burgesses was the first popurarly elected legislature in the New World. -
Bacon's Rebellion
Nathaniel Bacon led over 1,000 men from the western part of Virginia to Jamestown. -
Salem Witch Trials
The Salem Witch Trials were persecutions of woman being accused of witchcraft. 20 people were executed, mostly by hanging. -
John Peter Zenger
John Peter Zenger published the New York Weekly Journal which harshly pointed out the actions of the corrupt royal government. He was later put on trial but was pleaded unguilty and was seen as symbol for the freedom of the press. -
French and Indian War
Also known as the Seven Years War, it started whenever France started expanding into the Ohio River Valley. -
Proclamation of 1763
At the end of the French and Indian War the British issued a proclamation, mainly to stop the Indians by checking the enroachment of settlers on their land. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was the first tax placed on the American colonists by the British government. It was a tax placed on all printed documents in the colonies. -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Act required the colonies to house British soldiers in the barracks that the colonies had to provide. -
Declaratory Act
The Declaratory Act was for the better securing the dependency of his Majesty's dominions in America upon the crown and parliament of Great Britain. -
Boston Massacre
A mob of Patriots and British soldiers starting throwing snowballs, sticks, and stones at one another and it lead to a shooting which killed several colonists. -
Tea Act
The main purpose of the Tea Act was to bail out the floudering East India company.The British government placed taxes on imported tea but the colonists refused which later lead to the Boston Tea Party. -
Boston Tea Party
Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston Harbor and threw 342 chest of tea overboard. -
First Continental Congress
In response to the British Parliament enactment of the Coercive Acts the colonies sent 56 delegates from all of the colonies, except Georgia, to Carpenter's Hall. They then drafter a declarion of rights and grievances and elected Peyton Randolph as the first President of Congress. -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress created the Continental Army and named George Washington the supreme commander. The delegates tried to plead with King George III to attempt peacful resolution but he refused. This caused the colonies to be in a state of rebellion. -
The Declaration of Independence
The Revolutionary War was going on and the movement for independence from Britain had grown. This led delegates of Congress to vote on the issue and 5 men started drafting a formal statement of the colonie's intentions, which later lead to the Declaration of Independence which was written by Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston.
