Important Events, Documents, Treaties, etc.

Limited the power of the king

First permanent English settlement

First representative assembly in America.

First English colony in the Northeast

Rules est. by the Pilgrims for how to organize self-gov't at Plymouth.

1st writtencConstitution

Series of laws passed by England to regulate colonists' trade, so England would make money.

Religious movement in the colonies.

Removes French from N. America; beginning of problems between England and the colonies.

Officially ended Franch & Indian War

Colonists forbidden by England to settle west of tthe Appalachian Mts.

Tax on Molasses. One of many events angering colonists, which led to American Revolution.

Tax on legal documents, newspapers, licenses, diplomas, dice, playing cards. Also led to American revolution.

British soldiers could stay in colonists' homes; angered colonists.

Taxed goods such as glass, paper, silk, lead, and tes; angered colonists.

First civilians killed by British soldiers.

Key symbolic act of rebellion.

Led to Boston Tea Party.

Britain punishes acts severely for the Boston Tea Party.

First organizing of 13 colonies.

Lexington/Concord -- Beginning of American Rev.

Colonists declare loyalty to King George III, but ask him to cancel Intolerable Acts.

Colonies separate from England "When in the course of human events..." also , "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

1st American Constitution; states had too much power.

Battle of Yorktown -- concludes Revolutionary War.