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Jamestown, Virgina
the first sccessful English settlements, it founded. -
Pilgrims Sign the Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower Compact was the first agreement for self-government to be created and enforced in America. -
The Albany PLan
The British Board of Trade called a meeting. the meeting was to discuss the problems of colonial trade and the dangerr of attacks by the French and their Native American allies. -
Stamp Act Congress
The Law required the use of tax stamps on all legal documents, on certain business agreements, and on newspapers -
5 colonist are killed
troops in boston fired on a jeering crowd, killing five, in what came to be known as the Boston Massacre -
The tea act is Passed
colonists respond with the Boston Tea Party. Which so happended to have the act passed. -
Boston Tea Party
A group of men diguised as Native Americans, boarded three tea ships in Boston Harbor.
They broke open the chests and dumped the ship's cargo into the sea to protest British control of the tea trade. -
Parliament
The parliament passed another set of laws, this time to punish the colonists for the troubles in Boston and elsewhere. -
Adjourned Meeting
the meeting was adjourned with a call for a second congress to be convened the following May. -
The battle with Lexington and Concord
it marked the beginning of the American Revolution. Also it had siganled freedom for the Americans from British rule.
