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Jamestown was America's first permanent English Colony
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The Virginia House of Burgesses was the first form of legeslative representative government in the colonies.
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The Mayflower Compact was a document of governing the Plymouth Colony. It was written by the Separatists or the "Saints" saying that they were fleeing from having to worship only one religion because of King James of England.
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This was a rock that had the date "1620" enscribed in it showing that this is when the Mayflower made it to the New World.
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Bacon's Rebellion was a rebellion that was armed by Virginia settlers and it was led by a man by the name of Nathaniel Bacon. This rebellion was to go against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
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The Glorious Revolution was the overthrow of King James of England by a union of English Parliaments with the Dutch Stadtholder William of Orange.
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The Toleration Act was an act of Parliament granting freedom of religion and worship to the Nonconformists. (Baptists and Congregationalists) This act allowed them to have their own places to worship and their own teachers.
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The English Bill of Rights was an act of the Parliament of England. This Bill talks about the limits on the powers and sets out the rights of Parliament and rules for freedom of speech.
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Salem Witch Trials were constant hearings and prosecutions of people being accused of practicing witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts.
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John Peter Zenger was a German-American journalist that was charged for a criminal offence under English common law. For writing things that were against law and about disobeying.
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The French and Indian war was a war between England and France over land and the Indians joined sides with the French hoping to defeat the English so they could have their land back.
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The Proclamation of 1763 was a proclamation that forbid any settlers to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains.
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This was the act that required a British marking on all legal documents.
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This act stated that all English Settlers must have a British Soldier living in their house and they are to take care of that Soldier.
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Stated that Great Britains taxing authority was the same in the Americas as it was in Great Britain.
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This event occured when British troops killed 5 colonists in the 1st violent American Revolution.
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Act passed to save the East India tea company from greatly lowering the price on tea so the colonists could only buy tea from Great Britain.
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English colonists dressed up as Native Americans and threw almost $75,000 dollars worth of tea into the Boston Harbor as proposed to the Tea Act from Parliament in Great Britain.
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Group of men from 12 Colonies; all except for Georgia, and talked and sent a letter to the ruler of Engalnd appealing the acts from Parliament.
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All 13 Colonies met together to draft the Declaratioin of Independence.
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This was written and sent to Great Britain asking for the colonies own independence from Great Britain and it was approved.
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This treaty ended the American Revolution between Great Britain and America.