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Jamestown Founded
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Pilgrams arrive at plymouth and sign Mayflower compact
The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of the plymouth colony. It was signed by 41 men. Most people who boarded the may flower were servants, tradesme and people who wanted relgious freedom. Plymuoth was colony that lasted from 1620 to 1691. Plymouth was one of the most succsesful colonies next to jamestown. This colony also contributed to the exsisitance of Thanksgivivng -
Navigation acts
The Navigation act was a continuation of law that restricted the use of foreign shipping for trade between England.These Acts also formed the basics for British overseas trade for nearly 200 years.Their goal was to force colonial development into lines favorable to England, and stop direct colonial trade with the Netherlands, France, and other European countries. -
George Washington
1.George Washington started school when he was six years old. He left school at 15 to become a surveyor because his mother couldn't afford to send him to college.
2.At 26, he married Martha Dandridge Custis, a widow who already had two children, Jackie and Patsy. Washington never had any children of his own.
3.At six feet, two inches tall, and 200 pounds, he was one of our biggest presidents.
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Pual Revere
Paul Revere was born on January 1, 1735 Fact 2 His place of birth was Boston, Massachusetts Fact 3 His father was called Apollos Rivoire (1702-1754), who was born in Riaucaud, France. He Anglicized his name to Paul Revere shortly after he immigrated to America Fact 4 His mother was Deborah Hitchbourn, who was born January 25, 1704, died May 23, 1777 Fact 5 Paul Revere was descended from a Huguenot family who had fled the French Inquisition -
King George the 3rd
- he had a maddening disease called porphyria
- he succeeded his grandfather in 1760
- he ended a nine year war with France
- he married charlotte of mecklenburg - strelitz
- even though he wasn't yet dead and stil king the ruling of the kingdom was passed down to his son in 1811, due to his porphyria
- he died blind, deaf and mad at windsor castle, January 29th 1820
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Thomas jefferson
1,Thomas Jefferson was born in Shadwell, Virginia on April 13, 1743. He was the third of ten children.- He attended the College of William and Mary at age 16 and became a lawyer after college.
- Not only was Jefferson a signer of the Declaration of Independence, he wrote the document in 1776.
- He was vice president from 1797 – 1801 and president from 1801-1809. 5.Jefferson’s face is on the two-dollar bill and nickel.
- He attended the College of William and Mary at age 16 and became a lawyer after college.
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Treaty Of Paris ending french and indian war
The Treaty of Paris, also known as the Peace of Paris and the Treaty of 1763, was signed on 10 February 1763 by the countries of Great Britain, France, And spain.The signing of the treaty formally ended the Seven Years' War. This treaty was signed in Paris,France. The three american negotiators for the treaty were Benjamin Franklin, John jay, and Jhon adams. These people also signed the document. -
Proclimation act
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George the third. This kept colonist frm moving west past the Appalachian Mountins. This offended the thirteen colonies. They claimed they had the right to move west ward. The proclamtion also sated that settelrs could not by land either unless it was was bought by the king first. this act would sometimes be called the " Indian Magna Carta." Even the Native American land was getting affected by this act. -
Sugar act
On April 5, 1764, Parliament passed a modified version of the Sugar and Molasses Act (1733), which was about to expire. the act aslo taxed more foreign goods like sugar, certain wines, coffee, pimiento, cambric and printed calico, and further, regulated the export of lumber and iron. With most items being taxed the colonist no longer wanted to purchase goods from the British. This act, and the Currency Act, set the stage for the revolt at the imposition of the Stamp Act. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed. the cost of the stamp was cheap. The main purpose of the stamp was to support british troops in the appalachian mountains. This stmap raised money without the consent of the colonist. -
Quartering act.
The local colonial governments were forced to provide housing to British soldiers stationed in the American colonies.
This was in effect during the, "seven years war". This act was supposed to releive problems but it really created tention with the colonist. If there were more troops then housing availible, the brithish would stay in "INN's". Then in 1774 another Quartering act was inlisted and was less burdensome. Still the colonist rejected it. -
Decleration of independece
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Townshend Act
taxes on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper, and tea were applied with the design of raising £40,000 a year for the administration of the colonies. this was a series of laws named for Charles Townshend, British Chancellor of the Exchequer (Treasurer). These laws placed new taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea. Colonial reaction to these taxes was the same as to the Sugar Act and Stamp Act, and Britain eventually repealed all the taxes except the one on tea. -
Boycott of british goods
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Boston Massacre
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Tea Act
it was an act created in 1773 by the British Parliament that stated that the East Indian Company would have to cruise directly to the American colonies to export their tea instead of going first to Britain and then export it again to the same colonies. was an act established on 1773 by the British Parliament that stated that the East Indian Company would have to cruise directly to the American colonies to export their tea instead of going first to Britain and then export it again . -
Boston Tea Party
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Intolerable Acts
May to june. Series of laws sponsored by British Prime Minister Lord North and enacted in 1774 in response to the Boston Tea Party. These laws were: Impartial Administration of Justice Act, Massachusetts Bay Regulating Act, Boston Port Act, Quartering Act, Quebec Act. These Acts were the harshest so far of all the Acts passed by Parliament. -
Lexington and Concord
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Battle of Bunker hill
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Battle of New York
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Battle of Trenton.
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Treaty of paris ending american war
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Benjamin Franklin
1.Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston on 17th January 1706.
2.Benjamin was the ninth child out of eleven children.
3.Benjamin Franklin was at the age of seventy when he signed the Declaration of Independence.
4.He was the only person to sign the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Treaty of Paris of 1776.
5.He was 84 when he di
