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Founding of Jamestown
-First permanent English settlement
-Virginia
-Founded by John Smith
-Named after King James I
-Harsh living conditions -
Founding of the Virginia House of Burgesses
-First legislative assembaly of elected representatives in North America
-Established by the Virginia Company
-First meeting held in Jamestown, Virginia
-Democracy -
Fundimental Orders of Connectitut
-Set up by the Connecticut River towns
-First written constitution -
Maryland Act of Tolleration
-Also known as the Act of Cencerning Religion
-Madated religious tollerance got trinitarian Christians
-Protected Catholic law -
Halfway Covenant
-form of partial church membership
-made to bring back the people drifting alway from their religious morals -
King Phillips War
-conflict between Native American inhabitants and modern day New England
-lasted 14 months
-fight over the Ohio River Valley -
Bacons Rebellion
-Led by Nathanial Bacon
-Against the rule of Governer William Berkeley
-First rebellion in American colonies
-caused by Berekley's refusal to retaliate Indian attacks on frontier settlements -
Leisures Rebellion
-led by Jacob Leisure
-resented the rule and policies of King James II -
Salems Witchcraft Trials
-in Salem, Massachusetts
-people were burned at the stake for being "witches"
-ended when governers wife was accused of being a witch -
The First Great Awakening
-18th Century
-Colonial America
-Revived religion -
John Peter Zenger Trial
-John Peter Zenger published his opinions of the governer, William Cosby in the New York Weekly Journal
-He was arrested and charged with libel -
Stono Rebellion
-rebellion led by Native Africans
-Slave rebellion
-Killed 20-25 whites
-recruited nearly 60 slaves -
French and Indian War
-Seven Years War
-War between the French and British
-George Washington led Americans
-William Pitt led French -
March of the Paxton Boys
-Attack by Pensylvania frontiermen on the Indian settlement
-Durring the Pontiac Indian uprising
-Put down by John Penn -
Stamp Act
-Impossed a direct tax on all paper products
-British Americans -
Boston Massacure
-British army killed 5 civlians
-injured 6
-colonists revolted -
Boston Tea Party
-Patriots refused to pay the tax on tea
-they dumped out all of the tea into the harbor -
Lexington and Concord
-1st military engagment of the Revelutionary War
-British army was sent to retrieve and destory ilitary supplies
-Patriots shot the 'shot heard areound the world' -
Common Sense
-Thomas Paine published a phamplet that inspired the colonists to declare independence -
Olive Branch Pettiton
-John Dickinson wrote
-adopted by the Second Continental Congress
-Appeals directly to King George
-to break bonds with Britain -
Declaration of Independence
-Announced that the American states are now independent -
Articles of Confederation
Set up a weak government to break free of British ways -
Writing of the Constitution
-Guarenteed American citizens rights.
