American Timeline

By Wesley Dunford

  • Jamestown

    First permanent English settlement in the New World

  • Virginia House of Burgesses

    The first legislative assembly in the American colonies.

  • Mayflower compact

    It was an agreement of the people on the Mayflower to set up a government to support them when they reach land.

  • Bacon’s Rebellion

    An armed rebellion led by Nathaniel Bacon against the colony of Jamestown

  • Salem Witch Trials

    The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts

  • The French and Indian War

    The French and Indian war was the colonists and the British fighting the French and Indians for western territory

  • Proclamation of 1763

    This prohibited American colonists from settling west of Appalachia.

  • The Sugar Act

    This was imposed a tax of six pence per gallon of molasses.

  • The Quartering Act

    The colonist had to allow British soldiers to stay in the house and to feed them

  • The Stamp Act

    The new 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

  • Townshend Acts

    The Townshend Acts were a series of measures, passed by the British Parliament in 1767, that taxed goods imported to the American colonies.

  • Boston Massacre

    British Army soldiers shot and killed five people while under attack by a mob.

  • The Tea Act

    The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the financially struggling company survive.

  • Committees of Correspondence

    Shadow governments organized by the Patriot leaders of the Thirteen Colonies on the eve of the American Revolution.

  • Boston Tea Party

    Colonist dressed up as indians and dumped a lot of tea in the bay

  • First Continental Congress

    a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies

  • Lexington and Concord

    The first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.

  • Olive Branch Petition

    A final attempt by the colonists to avoid going to war with Britain during the American Revolution.

  • declaration of independence

    The American colonists declaring independence.

  • Declaration of Independence

    The colonist declaring independence from Britain with a said statement to them.