colonies

By Chloeb
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    colonies

  • ancient chinese secret

    the ancient chinese secret of sericulture got to America in the 1600s
  • slaves came to jamestown

    A large number of slaves came to jamestown in the early 1600s
  • virginia

    John Smith found Jamestown.
  • John smith

    Smith was badly burned in a gunpowder accident and had to return to England to get treatment
  • William Bradford

    Mayflower compact. led by William Bradford
  • thanksgiving

    Roosevellt declared that the fourth thursday of every November would be a national holiday in honor of the feast shared by the pilgrims and the American Indians in 1621
  • Peter Minuit

    Set up as dutch colony taken over by english in 1664
  • john Mason

    Puritan harshness led these settlers north and inland.
  • John Winthrop

    John Winthrop led the Puritans to Massachusetts Bay Colony in !630
  • The Pequot War

    Connecticut was the site of The Pequot War (1634-1638)
  • Massachusetts Bay Colony

    Harvard University started in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1638
  • concession and agreement

    This document had some important rules in it
  • new york colony

    the new york colony elected an assembly that made some important laws
  • Yale University

    Yale University began in 1701 in the Connecticut Colony
  • new york newspaper criticized

    Almost one hundred years later, in 1735, a legal matter tested the patience of the colonists.
  • Britian and france

    In 1754 a war broke out between britian and france. They were fighting over land in north America.
  • sugar act

    British prime minister George Grenville introduces this act
  • religion congregation

    New jersey had so many different religion congregation, or groups, that some of them met in homes or barns.
  • stamp act

    this law is the first direct tax imposed on the American colonist.
  • Declaratory Act

    this is the englands attempt to reassert its power over the Americans colonist
  • Townshend Act

    A Britsh statesman Charles Townshend these acts attempt to collects duties on items like glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea. coming into the colonies from england. the boston merchants refuse to pay the tax boycott English goods
  • Boston Massacre

    Massachsetts Citizens resent the presence of Britsh soldiers who are sent to keep order in the restless colony and enforced the townshend act. The colonist are abusive to the Britch regulars. provoked by an angry crowd the soldier fired on the mob and killed 5 colonist
  • Britsh government passed a tax

    The Britsh government passed a taxon tea. In protest, colonist in massachuchetts dumped chest of tea into the harbor.
  • Tea Act

    It gives the company the right to pick merchants those that are loyal to the king in the colonies to act as exclusive distributors of its tea. it also alows the company to export the tea directly to the colonist instead of going to great britian first. the colonist refused to support the tax
  • Boston Tea Party

    frustrated by the tea act the people of boston organize. they removed and destroy the tea being held on three ships in the boston harbor
  • Coercive Acts

    The people on massachetts are forced to quarter british troops
  • The first shots

    The first shots of the American revolution were fired,
  • Olive Branch Petition

    The Olive Branch Petition was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 5, 1775, in a final attempt to avoid a full-on war between the Thirteen Colonies, that the Congress represented, and Great Britain. The petition affirmed American loyalty to Great Britain and entreated the king to prevent further conflict.
  • declaration of Independence

    The colonist issued the Declaration of Independence
  • Declaration of Independence

    The Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Continental Congress meeting at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies,
  • Treaty of Paris

    The Treaty of Paris of 1783, negotiated between the United States and Great Britain, ended the revolutionary war and recognized American independence.
  • constitution

    some of the men who singed the constitution