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Jamestown
-America's first permanent English colony
-Established 13 years before Pilgrims landed at Plymouth -
Virginia House of Burgesses
Was the first democratically-elected legislative body in the British American colonies. -
Plymouth Rock
Founded by William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims -
Mayflower Compact
First agreement for self-government to be created and enforced in America -
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
-A Constitution for the colonial government of Hartford
-Similar to the government that Massachusetts had set up -
Toleration Act
A law mandating religious tolerance for Trinitarian Christians -
Bacon's Rebellion
An armed rebellion by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against Governor William Berkeley -
Glorious Revolution
The overthrow of King James II of England by a union of English Parliamentarians -
English Bill of Rights
British Law passed by the Parliament of Great Britain that declared the rights and liberties of the people -
Salem Witch Trials
A series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts -
John Peter Zenger
-Printed the New York Weekly Journal
-Helped spread revolutionary ideas -
French & Indian War
Battles between the British and the French/Indian forces for land in America -
Albany Plan of Union
A plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies, suggested by Benjamin Franklin -
Proclamation of 1763
Created after French and Indian War which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains -
Quartering Act
Required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies -
Stamp Act
New tax imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. -
Declaratory Act
Declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act -
Boston Massacre
An incident in which British Army shot and killed people while under attack by a mob -
Tea Act
Was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouse and to help the struggling company survive -
Boston Tea Party
Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard -
1st Continental Congress
A meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies who met at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia -
2nd Continental Congress
Managed Colonial war effort and moved incrementally towards independence -
Declaration of Independence
The formal statement written by thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain -
Treaty of Paris
Ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain and the United States of America
