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James Town
The very first permanent English colony was established to porvide proft for the mother country. It was only after tobacco, an important cash crop was established that Jamestown became a success. -
House of Burgesses
This was the first time the colonissts had any self-government power. Representatives from each burgess or ditrect would meet and etablish taxes and laws for thier arean. This had meet with the royal govenor's approval, but colonists still felt that they had power. -
Mayflower Compact
The Puritians from the Plymouth colony (Mass.) decided to create there own laws, which estblished the important self-governing principle or majority rule. -
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
First written constitution by a colony; Limited the power of goverment; majority rule, consent of the governed, protected minority righs. -
Triangular Trade
New england merchants trade basic supplies with the West Indies in return for sugar and molasses. Later Africa was added into this route for its slaves. froming the "Middle Passage" -
Marylan Toleration Act
Law granting religious freedom to all christians living in the Maryland colony. -
Navigation Acts
England wanted more of the American colonies profet from trade. So they passed this act so they had controll on what ships intered and left the colonies. -
John Peter Zenger
Zenger was accused of sedition and libel by a royal offical who took offense to the newspaper man's criticism of limits on free expression. Zenger was put on trial in frount of a colonial jury who found him innocent becuase what was printed was the truth. This was the first act of freedom of press. -
The Great Awakening
Colonists beagn expressing their religous ideas through new churches other then the Church of England or the Angglican Church. This shows how the colonists began to think for themselves. -
French and Indian War
The colonisits want to expand into the Ohio Valley and Canada. So the Colonies fought aginst the combined forces of France and the Indians. -
Albany Plan of Union
Benjamin Franklin's plan for the colonises th unite to establish a common defense. It didn't work. -
Proclammation of 1763
THe colonists could not settle west of the Appalachian Mountains. This enraged colonists who only found in the french and idian war for more land. -
Stamp Act
England' attempt to get money form the colonests. Things ranging from legal documents to decks of cards. -
Boston Massacre
The Brtish soldiers kill five colonists during a fight in Bostn. This event was later used as propagand of Samuel Adams and other patriots when calling it a Massacre. -
Tea Act
England puts a heaver tax on tea. This causes the Bostin Tea Party. -
Inrolerable Acts
To punish the Boston community for the Boston Tea Party. They close the harbor, add a curfew, and Marshall law is placed. -
Quartering Act
An act passed that made the colonsts provie houseing for British Troops -
Lexinton and Concord
fighting between the brtish soldiers and the colonial militas occur. When General Gage finds out that the colonists are stockpling the weapons. When he finally finds the place where they were keeping them. They are gone. -
olive branch petition
a committee of colonists draft a letter to the king of england asking for the fighting to end. King George III refuses to even read the letter. -
Common Sense
Thomas Paine Writes a popular pamphelt that staes the its obvious that the England and American colonies should not remain united. That its only "common sense" to declare independence. -
Declarationi of Independense
Thomas Jefferson drafts a documaent that is a list of complaints against Britian. This was to serve two purposes: one to notify England and the rest of the world of there intent and reason's for it, and Second to rally the colonists behind a great cause inspiring them to throw off the shackles of opression.
