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Founding of Virginia
Jamestown Virginia is founded by the Virginia Company and is the first English Colony. -
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The Revolution
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King charles
King Charles becomes absolute monarch, and people leave for America. -
Oliver Cromwell
King Charles is beheaded so Oliver Cromwell rules England for 10 years. -
Navigation Act
The Navigation Act requires all imports to the colonies are transported by English ships. -
Navigation Act Continued
The Navigation Act sets up a custom office that collects duties on goods passed between plantations. -
Kng Phillips War
600 Colonists and 3000 native Americans die in New England because of the King Phillips War. -
Sugar Act
England creates the Sugar Act and taxes sugar, molasses, wine, and coffee to pay for colonial military costs. -
Declaratory Act
The Declaratory act tells the Colonists that the King has the right to tax them even though they dont have parliamentary representation. -
Boston Tea Party
Boston Tea Party is a protest against the unfair taxation. -
Intolerable Acts
The intolerable acts are enacted which blockaded the Boston Harbour causing trade to be shut down, and the meetingof the First Continental Congress in which members of the 12 of the 13 colonies meet to petition the unfair taxation.
