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establishment of Jamestown as a colony
1607, 104 English men and boys arrived in North America to start a settlement -
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Columbus constitution
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establishment of Massachusetts as a colony
1629 King Charles I of England granted the Massachusetts Bay Company a charter to trade in and colonize the part of New England that lay approximately between the Charles and Merrimack Rivers, and settlement began in 1630. -
French and Indian war
The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war's expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution. -
the proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation forbade all settlements west of a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains -
stamp act
the British Parliament passed the “Stamp Act” to help pay for British troops stationed in the colonies during the Seven Years' War -
Boston massacre
On March 5, 1770, seven British soldiers fired into a crowd of volatile Bostonians, killing five, wounding another six, and angering an entire colony -
Boston tea party
The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest on December 16, 1773, by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts. -
intolerable acts
The Coercive Acts of 1774, known as the Intolerable Acts in the American colonies, were a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. -
virgina plan
the Constitutional Convention in 1781, James Madison's Virginia Plan outlined a strong national government with three branches: legislative, executive, and judicial. -
treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris was signed by U.S. and British Representatives on September 3, 1783, ending the War of the American Revolution.