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Founding of Jamestown
Virginia Company explorers landed on Jamestown Island to establish the Virginia English colony on the banks of James River. -
House of Burgesses
It established a legistlated assembly. It was created as part of an effort to settle in North America and to make conditions in the colony more agreeable for its current inhabitants -
Mayflower Compact
It was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It bound the pilgrims together when they arrived to the New England. -
Founding of Plymouth
People from England got aboard the Mayflower and landed in Plymouth. They formed the first settlement there. They started america. -
Albany Plan of Union
a plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government. -
French & Indian War
Frances expansion into the Ohio River valley repeatedly brought the country into armed conflict with the British Colonies. -
Sons of Liberty
The secret society was formed to protect the rights of the colonists and to fight the abuses of taxation by the British government. It formed because they didn't agree with the Stamp Act. -
Stamp Act Congress
The Stamp Act was a law that placed taxes on every document. Tax stamps were needed for legal documents, marriage certificates, insurance policies, licenses and many others. -
Boston Massacre
It was as street fight between a "patriot" mob throwing snowballs, sticks, and stones, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed. -
Patrick Henry
an American attorney, planter and politician who became known as an orator during the movement for independence in Virginia in the 1770s. He introduced the Stamp Act Resolutions. -
Paul Revere
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Boston Tea Party
Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. It resulted in the passage of the punitive Coercive Acts in 1774 and pushed the two sides to war. -
First Continental Congress
a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. They met to consider options, rights and grievances, and petitioned King George III for redress of those grievances. -
Paul Revere
employed by the Boston Committee of Correspondence and the Massachusetts Committee of Safety as an express rider to carry news, messages, and copies of resolutions as far away as New York and Philadelphia. -
Second Continental Congress
This was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting after the American Revolutionary War had begun. They formed the army. -
Thomas Paine's Common Sense
Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain in the summer of 1776 -
Declaration of Independence
It's a founding document that separated the 13 colonies from the British Empire. -
Articles of Confederation
This created a weak national government with the most governmental powers retained by the states. -
Constitutional Convention
They met to discuss possible improvements to the Articles of Confederation. -
Federalist Papers
The Federalist is a collection of 85 articles and essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay promoting the ratification of the United States Constitution -
Delaware Ratifies Constitution
It was to improve ecomonic relations in the new republic. It indicated that the states were were indeed willing to consider an extra legal document drafted behind closed doors. -
New Hampshire Ratifies the Constitution
New Hampshire was the ninth state to ratify the constitution. They stated that they wanted a change to it. The change being "congress shall never disarm any citizen, unless such as are or have been in actual rebellion." -
Rhode Island Ratifies Constitution
Rhode Island became the 13th state to enter the Union after ratifying the Constitution. -
Bill of Rights Ratified.
Articles 3 to 12 were ratified. They were the first 10 amendments of the constitution.
