unit 2 timeline

  • Establishment of Jamestown as a colony

    Establishment of Jamestown as a colony
    About 104 English men and boys move to North America to start a new life. They pick Jamestown in Virginia. The town is named after the King James.
  • Establishment of Massachusetts as a colony

    Establishment of Massachusetts as a colony
    King Charles 1 of England granted the Massachusetts Bay Company a trade. They colonize approximately between the Charles and Merrimack Rivers. The settlement began in 1630
  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act
    This act means prohibited the importation of all foreign rum. A retained a high duty on foreign refined sugar. Also cut the duty on foreign molasses from 6 to 3% per gallon.
  • Stamp Act

     Stamp Act
    Had to pay British troops during the long war. This act mean the colonists had to pay taxes. But only on things with a stamp like playing cards, documents, and papers.
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    Seven British soldiers fired into a crowd of volatile Bostonians. This killed five people and wounded six more. This was angering an entire colony.
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    This was an act of protest which a group of 60 people jumped on the boats and threw 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. This was for the taxation without representation. A political protest.
  • Intolerable Act

    Intolerable Act
    They used this act to get back them for the Boston Tea Party. This was one of the four laws they passed. It limited colonial power and reinstated royal governance.
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence
    It not an legally binding, but its it powerful. This mean the states principles on which our government and more. This day we becamed free and independent.
  • Great Compromise ( connecticut)

    Great Compromise ( connecticut)
    This settled the method of representation. It have to be an equal on the vote. This shows that large states is not better the small ones.
  • Signing of US Constitution

    Signing of US Constitution
    It was 55 delegates signed the new document. George Washington was the first one to signed. This was to give the power in the people who in it