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Jamestown
Jamestown was the first colony to be established. In Virginia, Jamestown was founded off of tobacco and labor. -
Virginia House of Burgess
The first legislative assembly in the American colonies. The first assembly met in the church at Jamestown. Present were Governor Yeardley, Council, and 22 burgesses representing 11 plantation Burgesses were elected representatives. -
Mayflower Compact
First governing document of the Plymouth colony. Consisting of separatists, puritans and tradesmen. They were fleeing religious persecution of King James. -
Bacon's Rebellion
Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley -
Salem Witch Trials
Series of hearings and prosecutions in colonial massachusetts. Over 200 people were accused of witchcraft and 19 were found guilty and executed. -
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French and Indian War
War that pitted the English against the French and the Indians. English victory led them to seek independence from the British Crown. -
Proclamation of 1763
After the French and Indian war the British Government issued this to try and hold back the English from more conflict. They weren't allowed to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains. -
Sugar act
This act basically enforced the previously passes molasses act. The act wasn't very useful because everyone just smuggles the sugar anyways. The sugar act set things in place to stop this from happening. -
Stamp act
The stamp act was the first act levied out onto the colonies by the British. This act taxed all things that dealt with paper. Issued because of the massive debt Britain had after the French and Indian war. -
Quartering act
This act required the colonists to house the British soldiers. They were required to feed them and house them no matter what conditions. -
Townshend acts
Series of British laws mainly put in place for the colonists to raise money and pay governors and stay loyal to the crown. -
Boston Massacre
Argument in Boston between the colonists and British soldiers. Known to many as the shot heard around the world. The beginnings of the American Revolution. -
Tea act
This act granted the British a complete monopoly of the tea trade in the american colonies. The colonists hated this not so much because of the act but because there was no representation to pass the act. -
Committee of Correspondence
These served an important role in the Revolution, by disseminating the colonial interpretation of British actions between the colonies and to foreign governments. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts. Dressed up as Indians and threw tea into the harbor. -
Intolerable acts
Acts passed after the Boston tea party. Meant to punish the colonist in the Massachusetts bay area. -
First Continental Congress
First meeting of congress where delegates from 12 out of the 13 original colonies met and discussed the intolerable acts. This first congress called for a boycott of all British goods. -
Lexington and Concord
These were the two battles that kicked off the American Revolution in 1775. They battles were fought by the minutemen from the colonies. -
Olive Branch Petition
The Olive Branch Petition was a final attempt by the colonists to avoid going to war with Britain during the American Revolution. It was a document in which the colonists pledged their loyalty to the crown. -
Declaration of Independence
The founding document that established The United States independent of British rule. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration announced that the Thirteen Colonies then at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain would regard themselves as thirteen independent sovereign states no longer under British rule.
