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The Mayflower lands at Plymouth Rock
The Mayflower first docked near present day Provincetown and then reached the port of Plymouth in 1620. According to oral tradition Plymouth Rock was where William Bradford and other pilgrims first set foot on land -
Pennsylvania Becomes a Colony
Signed the Pennsylvania Charter and was officially proclaimed on April 2nd. The king named the new colony in honor of William Penn’s father and the Pennsylvania colony was founded in 1682 by William Penn and others -
The French and Indian War
The French and Indian Wars began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war resulted in Britain gaining enormous territory in North America but subsequent disputes over border policy and paying the war led to colonial discontent and ultimately the American War of Independence. -
The Sugar Act
The Sugar Act is a British law that aims to end the sugar and molasses smuggling trade in the French and Dutch West indies in American colonial history and increase revenue to cover the responsibilities of the expanded British Empire. -
The Currency Act
One of several laws in the British Parliament that regulate banknotes issued by British colonies in America. This law was intended to protect British merchants and creditors from paying in devalued colonial currency -
The Stamp Act
England wanted to pay their troops in the colonies, so they passed the Stamp Act. It put a tax on papers, documents, and other stuff. If the colonists didn’t pay, they were punished unfairly without a jury. The colonists hated this act. For them, it was an example of “taxation without representation.” -
The Quartering Act
The British Parliament passed a divergence law, one of a series of measures aimed at increasing incomes from British colonies in the American. The colonial government had to pay the cost of feeding and protecting all the troops stationed in the colony. -
The Townshend Revenue Act
Named after British Treasury Secretary Charles Townshene, the Townshend Acts imposed tariffs on British ceramics,glass,lead,paint,paper and tea imposed into the colonies. And most of the income comes from cars. -
The Boston Massacre
In a showdown in Boston British troops shot and killed several people they thought were rioters. A street fight between “Patriotic” mobs and British soldiers throwing snowballs, stones and sticks. Several colonists were killed which led to a campaign of speakers to arouse public outrage. -
The Boston Tea party
Political protests at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain's imposition of “taxation without representation” , dumped 342 boxes of tea imported by the British East India Company into ports -
The First Continental Congress
Representatives of 13 colonies except Georgia met at the first Continental Congress in Philadelphia to organize colonial resistance against a law enforced by Congress that was fighting the Native American uprising and relied on Britain for munitions. -
Patrick Henry’s “Give me Liberty or give me Death” speech
The main point of Henry’s argument in his “Speech to Virginia Convention” is that the colonists exhausted every other option they tried to reason with the British and the presence of British troops in the colonies proves that the British were not interested in upbringing. -
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The Ride of Paul Revere
An 1860 poem by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that commemorates the actions of American patriot Paul Revere. It was first published in the January 1861 issue of Atlantic Monthly. -
The Second Continental Congress
The second continental congress was a gathering of representatives of the 13 American colonies that united in the American War of Independence. And the second congress acted as a defacto national government in the early days of the War of independence by reinforcing the army commanding strategy appointing diplomats writing petitions such as a declaration of the cause and necessity of gunfire and an olive branch petition -
George Washington named Commander in Chief
George Washington was appointed commander in chief of the continental army. Washington was chosen over other candidates such as John Hancock based on his previous military experience and the hope that Virginia’s leader could help unify the colony.