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Jamestown
English boys and girls arrived in North America and settled in Virginia. They named Jamestown after King James I. This settlement became the first permanent English settlement in North America. -
Virginia House of Burgesses
It was an assembly of elected representatives from Virginia. Each county sent two representatives down to make decisions for them. I -
Plymouth Rock
The Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620. Had a little over 100 passengers coming to North America. -
Mayflower Compact
Signed by 41 English colonist on the ship Mayflower. It was the first written framework that the goverment had in the New World. The compact was drafted to prevent dissent amongst Puritans and non-separatist Pilgrims who had landed at Plymouth a few days earlier. -
Toleration Act
An act concerning Religion -
Bacon's Rebellion
Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Viginian settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon. They were going against a rule by the governor. About a thousand Virginians of all classes rose up in arms against Berkeley, attacking Native Americans, chasing Berkeley from Jamestown, Virginia, and ultimately torching the capital. -
Glorious Revolution
something to overthrow King James ll -
English Bill of Rights
an Act the stated the rules an limits on the pwers of crown an sets out the rights of Parliament. -
Salem Witch Trials
Started over some girls being caught in the woods dancing and the people in the town were scared that they might be witches, The only way for the girls to get out of trouble was to snitch and tell on other people who may, or may not be apart of the whole thing. Hundreds of people were burned alive and later on the judge found out the whole thing was a lie from the beginning. -
John Peter Zenger
case when Zenger said the judges were arbitrarily and he got charged wit libel. -
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French and Indian War
a war fought between the colonist and the British army. -
French and Indian War
a war that lasted about 7 years. the war was fought between new france and britian americans -
Treaty of Paris
signed in Paris of king george lll and representatives of the United States of America on 3 September 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War. -
Proclamation of 1763
done by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, in which it forbade all settlers from settling past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
Stamp Act
British forced the colonist to pay tax for newspapers -
Quartering Act
act forcing the colonist to provide food and shelter for any British soldier in the area -
Declatory Act
this declaration was stating that the rules in Britian still applied to the Colonist -
Tea Act
passed by Parliament on May 10, 1773, would launch the final spark to the revolutionary movement in Boston. The act was not intended to raise revenue in the American colonies, and in fact imposed no new taxes. -
Boston Massacre
British army soldiers killed 5 male citizens and injured 6 others. -
Boston Tea Party
the colonist ruined the whole supply of tea by dumping it in the Boston Harbor -
1st Continental Congress
convention of delegates from 12 colonies that met at the Carpenters Hall in Philadelphia. they met briefly to consider options, including the an economic boycott of British trade. -
2nd Continential Congress
convention of delegates from the 13 colonies that started meeting in Philadelphia. -
Declaration of Independence
when we declared freedom against Great Britain
