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Jamestown
the Virginia Company explorers landed on Jamestown Island to establish the Virginia English colony . 60 miles from the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay -
Virginia house of Burgesses
The House of Burgesses, which met at first only once a year, could make laws, which could be vetoed by the governor or the directors of the Virginia Company. -
Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower Compact, signed by 41 English colonists on the ship Mayflower. The compact was drafted to prevent dissent amongst Puritans and non-separatist Pilgrims who had landed at Plymouth a few days earlier. -
Bacon's Rebellion
Bacon's Rebllion began with a local dispute with the Doeg Indians on the Potomac River. -
French and Idian War
The French and Indian War, as it was referred to in the colonies, was the beginning of open hostilities between the colonies and Gr. Britain. England and France had been building toward a conflict in America since 1689. This is also known as The Seven Years War. -
Salem Witch Trials
To understand the events of the Salem witch trials, it is necessary to examine the times in which accusations of witchcraft occurred. There were the ordinary stresses of 17th-century life in Massachusetts Bay Colony. -
John Peter Zenger
John Peter Zenger was a German American printer, publisher, editor, and journalist in New York City. Zenger printed The New York Weekly Journal. -
Proclamation of 1763
King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War. -
Stamp Act
A motion was offered to first read petitions from the Virginia colony and others was denied. The bill was passed on February 17, approved by the Lords on March 8th, and two weeks later ordered in effect by the King. -
Quartering Act
Quartering Act is a name given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the 18th century. Parliament enacted them to order local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations or housing. -
Declatory Act
declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act. It stated that the British Parliament’s taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain. -
Boston Massacre
A squad of British soldiers, come to support a sentry who was being pressed by a heckling, snowballing crowd, let loose a volley of shots. -
Boston Tea Party
a group of colonists protest thirteen years of increasing British oppression, by attacking merchant ships in Boston Harbor. -
Tea Act
The act was not intended to raise revenue in the American colonies, and in fact imposed no new taxes. -
1st Continental Congress
Carpenter's Hall was also the seat of the Pennsylvania Congress. All of the colonies except Georgia sent delegates. -
2nd Continmental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -
Declaration of Independence
the Declaration of Independence is at once the nation's most cherished symbol of liberty and Jefferson's most enduring monument.
