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Salutary Neglect

Settling of Jamestown

1607

Jamestown was the first successful English settlement on the North America. Named after the King James of England.

Virginia House of Burgesses

1619

The House of Burgesses was created to encourage English craftsmen to settle in North America and to make the conditions in the colonies more agreeable for people.

Mayflower Compact

1620

The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of the Plymouth Colony. It was written by the Separatists.

Pilgrims Land at Plymouth Rock

1620

Plymouth Rock is the traditional site of disembarkation of the Mayflower Pilgrims who founded the Plymouth Colony in 1620.

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

1639

The Saltuary Neglect was meant to keep the American colonies obedient to England.

Bacon's Rebellion

1676

Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676 by the Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against William Berkeley.

Glorious Revolution

1688

The Glorious Revolution was the overthrow of King James II in 1688 that established the power of Parliament over the monarch

English (British) Bill of Rights

1689

A restatement in statutory form that invited William and Mary to become joint sovereigns of England.

Salem Witch Trails

1692

Series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in the colonies of Massachusetts.

John Peter Zinger

1734

He said that judges were arbitrarily displaced, and new courts were erected, without the consent of the legislature.

Taxation and Mercantilism

Albany Plan for the Union

1754

A proposal to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies.

French and Indian War

1756 - 1763

Fought between the colonies of British America and New France. Both sides were supported by military units from other countries.

Proclamation Act

1763

Proclamation by Britain at the end of the French and Indian War that prohibited settlement of whites on Indian territory.

Quartering Act

1765

Parliament forced them to order local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with anything they needed.

Stamp Act

1765

A law passed in the British Parliament in 1765 introducing a tax on legal documents, commercial contracts, licenses, publications, and playing cards in the North American colonies.

Declaratory Act

1766

Parliament repealed the Sugar Act because boycotts were hurting British trade and used the declaration to justify the repeal.

Townsend Acts

1767

A series of acts passed in 1767 by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America.

Boston Massacre

1770

Incident on March 5, 1770, were British Army soldiers killed five civilian men and injured six others.

Boston Tea Party

1773

A protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, against the tax policy of the British government and the East India Company that controlled all the tea imports.

Tea Act

1773

The goal was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company.

1st Continental Congress

1774

Convention of delegates from twelve colonies that met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Intolerable Acts

1774

A name used to describe a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 having to do with Britain's colonies in North America.

2nd Continental Congress

1775

A convention of delegates from the twelve colonies that started meeting on May 10, 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Battles of Lexington and Concord

1775

The first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.

Olive Branch Petition

1775

An attempt to avoid a war between the Thirteen Colonies and Great Britain.

Thomas Paine Writes "Common Sense"

1775

He was political activist, author, political theorist and revolutionary.

Declaration of Independence

1776

Written so create indepence of the states.

Articles of Confederation

1777

An agreement among the 13 states that established the US as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution.

Treaty of Paris

1783

Ended the American Revolutionary War.