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Jamestown
Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement in North America. At first there was about a hundred people to settle there, then famine, disease, and conflict with the native americans caused many of them to die. The settlement almost failed until a new group of settlers came in 1610. -
Virginia House of Burgesses
The Vrginia House of Burgesses was the first legaslative assembly of elected representatives in North America. It was created by the Virginia company, who encouraged people to Englishmen to settle in North America and wanted better conditions for people who lived in the colonies. -
Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of the Plymouth Colony. It was written by the Seperatists, who had seperated from the English Church. This document was made to say that the pilgrims could establish their own givernment. -
Plymouth Rock
Originally bound for Virginia, the Mayflower was blown off course and the pilgrims landed in Plymouth. Instead of venturing south, the pilgrims decided to stay and colonize there. -
Toleration Act
The toleration act allowed freedom of worship to non comformists. These people had pledged allegience and supremacy. Non comformists were allowed to practice what they wanted and have their own teachings. This did not apply to catholics, nontrinitarians, and atheists. -
Bacon's Rebellion
Nathaniel Bacon started a rebellion against Sir WIlliam Berkley when Berkley wouldn't go against the native Americans, Bacon got an army together. They issued the "Declaration of the People of Virginia" and later burned Jamestown. -
Glorious Revolution
The purpose of the Revolution was to over throw King James II of England. After King James son was born, it pushed his daughter Mary's chances of the throne back. WIlliam, Mary's husband decided to invade. William and Mary ended up ruling after that. -
English Bill of Rights
An act of Parliament passed in 1689. It lays down limits on the powers of the crown and sets rules for Parliament and freedom of speech. It also reestablished the liberty of protestants . -
Salem Witch Trials
A series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between Feburary 1692- May 1693. -
John Peter Zenger
To voice his disagreements with colonial governor WIlliam Cosby, John Peter Zenger wrote in a newspaper. Zenger was rrested for seditious libel, The lawyer pleaded the case directly to the jury and he was found not guilty. -
French and Indian War
This war was fought by the colonoies of British America, and New France. They were both supported by their mother countries, Britian and France, but since the french were so outnumbered they took help from the Indians. This escalated from a regional conflict to a world wide battle. -
Proclaimation of 1763
The Royal Proclaimation of 1763, forbid the settlers from settling past a line across the Appalachian Mountains. The purpose was to organize Great Britains new North American empire and stablize the relationship with native americans. -
Stamp Act
The stamp act put a direct tax on all things that were printed. this ws mainly for Brtish America from the Parliament. The purpose of the tax was to help pay for the british troops stationed in North America, -
Quartering Act
The Quarting Act was set in place to make the people in the American Colonies provide accommadations to British soliders as they needed. Orginally they were intended to fix problems that happened during the French adn Indian War but later created tension that was part of the fuel for the revolutionary war. -
Declaratory Act
The Declaratory Act was a repeal of the stamp Act set in 1765. The Stamp Act boycotts were hurting the British trade. The Declaration stated that Parliament's authority was the same in America as it was in Britain and asserted authories to pass laws binding in America. -
Boston Massacre
The murdering of five and six injured colonists by British regularators. It was the product of the growing tensions that were caused by the britsh men their to regulate the acts created by Britain. -
Tea Act
An act of parliament of Great Britain with a principal to reduce the massive surplus of tea held by the financially troubled Britishs East India Company in its London Warehouses to help the company that was struggling survive. -
Boston Tea Party
As a political protest of the sons of liberty, demonstrators dressed up as American Indians and destroyed an entire shipment of tea in defiance of the Tea Act, They boarded the ships and threw all of the chests of tea into the harbor. This episode escalated into the American Revolution. -
1st Conteinental Congress
A convention of delagates from tweleve colonies (not georgia.) It was called in response to the intolerable acts that punished for the Boston Tea Party. The congress met briefly to dicuss the thoughts of a british economic boycott and petitioned King George redress for those grievences. -
2nd Continental Congress
The second continental congress controlled the colonial war effort and moved towards independance. They adopted the Declaration of Independence. They became the government of what becamce the United States by raising armies, directing strategies, appointing diplomats, and making formal treaties. -
Declaration of Independence
A statement adoopted by the Continental Congress that the thirteen American colonies with drew themselves from British rule, thereofre become independant. Thus creating the United States of America. -
Treaty of Paris
this ended the American Revolutionary war between Great britain and the United States. This enlarged the United States Boundaries.
