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Colonial Timeline
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Jamestown
It was the first settlement in the colony of Virginia. -
Virginia House of Burgesses
Governor George Yeardley established this legislative assembly in the Virginia Colony. -
Mayflower Compact
It was signed by 41 English colonists and was the first written framework of government in what is now the United States. -
Plymouth Rock
It is a site of disembarkation of Bradford and the Pilgrims of the Mayflower who founded the Plymouth Colony. -
Toleration Act
It was known as the act concerning religion, it was a law mandating religious tolerance for trinitarian christians. -
Bacon's Rebillion
It was an armed rebellion by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley. -
Glorious Revolution
Also called the revolution of 1688, the overthrow of King James II of England by a union of English Parliamentarians with the Dutch stadtholder William III of Orange-Nassau. -
English Bill of Rights
It is an Act of the Parliament of England. -
Salem Witch Trials
Series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachussets. -
John Peter Zenger
John Peter Zenger was arrested and charged with seditious libel. -
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French and Indian War
Known as the Seven Years War and was fought by British America and New France. -
Proclamation of 1763
It was at the end of the French and Indian War and it forbade settlers from settling past a line drawn among the Appalachian Mountains. -
Stamp Act
Imposed a direct tax specifically on the colonies of British America, and it required that many printed materials should be produced on stamp paper. -
Quartering Act
Act to order local governments of the American Colonies to provide the British soldiers with anything they needed. -
Declaratory Act
Accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act. -
Boston Massacre
British soldiers killed 5 male civilians and injured 6 others in the streets of Boston. -
Tea Act
To reduce the massive surplus of tea held by the British East India Company. -
Boston Tea Party
Disguised American Indians destroyed the tea sent by the East India Company because of the taxes on tea. -
1st Continental Congress
Convention of delegates from twelve colonies that met at Carpenters Hall, in Philedelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
2nd Continental Congress
A convention of delegates from thirteen colonies that started a meeting in the summer of 1775 in Philedelphia soon after the American Revolution begun. -
Declaration of Independence
A document that stated the thirteen colonies' independence from the British. -
Treaty of Paris
It ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies.