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jamestown
Jamestown was established and founded in Virginia. Jamestown was the first permanent British settlement in North America -
Virginia house of burgesses
Virginia house of burgesses was the first democratically elected leglislative body in the British American colonies. -
Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower Compact was signed by 41 English colonists on the ship on November 11, 1620. It was the first written framework of government established in what is now the United States. -
Bacon's Rebellion
Nathaniel Bacon and a company of armed men arrived in Jamestown where Bacon is sezied by armed agents and taken before Virginia governor Sir William Berkeley and the General Assembly. Bacon apologizes on banded knee for his rebellion. -
The Salem Witch Trials
The Salem Witch Trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts . -
John Peter Zenger
John Peter Zenger was a German American printer, publisher,editor, and a journalist in New York City. Zenger printed The New York Weekly Journal. -
French and Indian War
The French and Indian War was the North American theater of the worldwide seven years war. -
Proclamation of 1763
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763 by King George lll following Great Britians acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War. -
Stamp Act
The new tax was imposed on all american colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used.. -
Quartering act
The British Parliment met and finally passed a quarerting act for the Americans. The act stated that troops could only be quarted in barracks. -
Declatory Act
The Parliament then agreed to repeal the stamp act on the Decloratory act was passed. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occured on March 5th 1770 between a patriot who was throwing snowballs stones and sticks . Also a aquad of British soldiers helped throwing stuff -
Tea Act
The Tea Act of 1773 was an Act of the Parliment of Great Britian . Its principle overt objective was to reduce the massive surplus of Tea held by the finacially troubled in Britian and Indian.. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party, was the destruction of the Tea in Boston. it was a political protest by the sons of liberty in Boston on December 16, 1773 -
1st ContinentialvCongress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the 13 colonies that met on September 5th to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters Hall in Philadelphia Pennsylvania early in the American Revolution.. -
The 2nd Continental Congress
The Sencond Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the 13th colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775.. -
Decloration of Independence
The Decloration of Independence is the usual name of a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the 13 American Colonies
