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Jared's Colonial Timeline
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Jamestown
The worlds's first permanent English colony in America. Originally had 100 people in the town. Main cash crop was tobacco. -
Virginia House of Burgesses
Was the first legislature anywhere in the English colonies. The first time they met was in a church in Jamestown. -
Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower Compact, signed by 41 English colonists on the ship Mayflower on November 11, 1620, was the first written framework of government established in America -
Plymouth Rock
Plymouth Rock is the traditional site of disembarkation of William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims who founded Plymouth Colony. -
Toleration Act
The Maryland Toleration Act did not bring complete religious freedom. -
Bacon's Rebellion
The first stirring of revolutionary sentiment in America, which culminated in the American Revolution almost exactly one hundred years later.Bacon's Rebellion as a power struggle between two stubborn, selfish leaders rather than a glorious fight against tyranny. -
Glorious Revolution
Was the overthrow of King James II of England. -
English Bill of Rights
It lays down limits on the powers of the crown and sets out the rights of Parliament and rules for freedom of speech in Parliament, the requirement for regular elections to Parliament and the right to petition the monarch without fear of retribution. -
Salem Witch Trials
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts. -
John Peter Zenger
He was a defendant in a landmark legal case in American jurisprudence, known as "The Zenger Trial." -
French and Indian War
The conflict was played out in Europe, India, and North America. In Europe, Sweden , Austria, and France were allied to crush the rising power of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia. The English and the French battled for colonial domination in North America, the Caribbean. -
Proclamation of 1763
The royal proclamation of 1763 did much to dampen that celebration. The proclamation, in effect, closed off the frontier to colonial expansion. -
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. -
Quartering Act
Required that the soldiers from Great Britain be housed in American barracks and public houses. -
Declatory Act
Parliament repealed the Stamp Act because boycotts were hurting British trade and used the declaration to justify the repeal and save face. -
Boston Massacre
Bristish Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others. -
Tea Act
The Bristish put a tax on tea. -
Boston Tea Party
Took place when a group of Massachusetts Patriots, protesting the monopoly on American tea importation recently granted by Parliament to the East India Company, seized 342 chests of tea in a midnight raid on three tea ships and threw them into the harbor. -
1st Continental Congress
The Congress met briefly to consider options, including an economic boycott of British trade; rights and grievances; and petitioned King George III for redress of those grievances. -
2nd Continental Congress
They decided to completely break away from Great Britain. -
Declaration of Independence
Which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. -
Treaty of Paris
Ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain on one side and the United States of America and its allies on the other.
