| A | B |
|---|
| Magna Carta - 1215 | Limited the power of the King |
| Jamestown - 1607 | First permanent English settlement |
| House of Burgesses | First representative assembly in North America |
| Mayflower Compact | Rules established by Pilgrims, organizing self-government at Plymouth |
| Navigation Acts | Series of laws passed by England to regulate colonists' trade, so England would make $$$ |
| Great Awakening | Religious movement in the colonies |
| French and Indian War | Removed French from North America |
| Treaty of Paris - 1763 | Officially ends French and Indian War |
| Proclamation of 1763 | Colonists forbidden by England to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains |
| Sugar Act | Tax on molasses. One of many acts that angered colonists and led to the Revolution. |
| Stamp Act | Tax on legal documents, newspapers, licesnese, diplomas, playing cards, etc. |
| Boston Tea Party | Key symbolic act of rebellion |
| Tea Act | Tax on tea, led to Boston Tea Party |
| Intolerable Acts | Britain punishes colonists severely for the Boston Tea Party |
| Quartering Act | British soldiers could stay in colonists' homes |
| First Continental Congress | First meeting of the 13 colonies |
| Treaty of Paris - 1783 | Recognized U.S. as a nation, officially ended the Revolutionary War |
| Revolutionary War ends | Battle of Yorktown |
| Shot Heard 'Round The World | Lexington/Concord, beginning of Revolutionary War |
| Boston Massacre | First civilians killed by British soldiers |
