American History Help!!!!!?

I just need to know why these incidents are important and significant (or what it led to) to American History...


1) House of Burgesses


2) Mayflower Compact


3) Boston Tea Party


4) Stamp Act


5) 1st Continental Congress


6) Boston Massacre


7) Jonathan Edwards


8) The Proclamation of 1763


9) The Sugar Act


10) The Intolerable (Coercive) Acts


11) Sons of Liberty


12) "Common Sense"


13) Articles of Confederation


14)Northwest Ordinance of 1787


15)The Virginia Plan


16) The New Jersey Plan


17) The Great Compromise


18) Alexander Hamilton


19)The Democratic-Republican Party

American History Help!!!!!?
Start by reading your textbook(s). If that doesn't help, go to www.search.yahoo.com or www.google.com and enter each of your 19 subjects into the search engine and read the information you uncover.





After you have read the historical information, you will be able to fromulate your answers.