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Jamestown
The America’s first permanent English colony, founded in 1607. This was 13 years before the Pilgrims landed in Massachusetts. -
Virginia House of Burgesses
The House of Burgesses was an assembly of elected representatives from Virginia that met from 1643 to 1776. -
Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by the Putitains who sailed aboard the Mayflower. -
Plymouth Rock
Plymouth Colony, America's first permanent Puritan settlement, was established by English Puritans on December 1620 to find religious freedom and a new start. -
Bacon's Rebellion
Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by young Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley -
Glorious Revolution
The Glorious Revolution was also called the Revolution of 1688, this was the overthrow of King James II of England -
Toleration Act
The act of Freedom to worship. -
English Bill of rights
The Bill of Rights is an Act of the Parliament of England passed on 16 December 1689. -
Salem Witch Trials
The Bill of Rights is an Act of the Parliament of England passed on 16 December 1689 -
John Peter Zenger
John Peter Zenger (October 26, 1697 – July 28, 1746) was a German American printer, publisher, editor and journalist in New York City. -
Stamp act
A stamp act is any legislation that requires a tax to be paid on the transfer of certain documents. -
1st Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from twelve colonies that met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
French and Indian War
The war was fought primarily between the colonies of British America and New France, with both sides supported by military units from their parent countries of Great Britain and France, who declared war on each other in 1756. In the same year, the war escalated from a regional affair into a world-wide conflict. -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris, also known as the Treaty of 1763, was signed on 10 February 1763 by the kingdoms of Great Britain, France and Spain, with Portugal in agreement, after Britain's victory over France and Spain during the Seven Years' War. -
Proclamation of 1763
It forbade settlers from settling past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Act is a name given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the 18th century -
Declatory Act
he American Colonies Act 1766, commonly known as the Declaratory Act, was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765. -
Bostan Massacre
The Boston Massacre, known as the Incident on King Street by the British. It was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. Its principal over objective was to reduce the massive surplus of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party (initially referred to by John Adams as "the Destruction of the Tea in Boston was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773. -
2nd Continental congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the 13 colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun. -
Decloration of Independance
The Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire
