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Jamestown
first permanent English settlement in the Americas. -
Virginia House of Burgesses
the first legislative assembly in the American colonies. -
Mayflower Compact
First governing document of Plymouth Colony. -
Bacon's Rebellion
armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley. -
Salem Witch Trials
were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than 200 people were accused, nineteen of whom were found guilty and executed by hanging. -
French and Indian War
comprised the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War of 1756–63. It pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France. Both sides were supported by military units from their parent countries, as well as by American Indian allies. -
Proclamation of 1763
the British issued a proclamation,mainly intended to conciliate the Indians by checking the encroachment of settlers on their lands. -
Sugar Act
law that attempted to curb the smuggling of sugar and molasses in the colonies by reducing the previous tax rate and enforcing the collection of duties. -
Stamp Act
Act of the Parliament of Great Britain that imposed a direct tax on its American colonies and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp. -
Quartering Act
name given to two or more Acts of British Parliament requiring local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with housing and food. -
Townshend Acts
They placed new taxes and took away some freedoms from the colonists including the following: New taxes on imports of paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea. -
Boston Massacre
known as the Incident on King Street by the British in which British Army soldiers shot and killed five people while under attack by a mob. -
Committees of Correspondence
were shadow governments organized by the Patriot leaders of the Thirteen Colonies on the eve of the American Revolution -
Tea Act
Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the financially struggling company survive. -
Boston Tea Party
political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts -
First Continental Congress
Meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies who met from September 5 to October 26, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
Intolerable Acts
Punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British to the detriment of colonial goods -
Olive Branch Petition
final attempt by the colonists to avoid going to war with Britain during the American Revolution -
Lexington and Concord
first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
Declaration of Independence
Stated colonies independence from Britain.
