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

History Help!!!!?
All of them are important, and play a role in American History. I can answer some of them. Let's start with the easy one. Besides being a representative of New York during the Constitutional Convention, Alexander Hamilton fought in the Revolutionary War, and was also the First Secretary of the Treasury. "Common Sense was Thomas Paine's phamplet that he published with regards to why the Colonies should fight. It outlined what freedom was about. The Articles of Confederation were the first set of laws that were set up after the Revolution was over. This was our governments first crack at a new nation, and they were very loose. There was no power to tax or to regulate taxes. The House of Burgesses was the first legislative assembly to take place in the newly established colony of Virginia and later after the war, the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Boston Tea party as the name suggests, was a retaliation against the British for them imposing the Tea Tax. So late at night citizens of Boston dressed as Indians snuck aboard the ship and threw all the tea into Boston Harbor. The Stamp act was important because it was the first major tax against the colonies by England. It placed a tax on all documents, and it was so hated that riots actually broke out. The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth County. Jonathan Edwards was a Puritan Minister who wrote "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." It basically outlined why you must be a good Puritan and what you had to do in order to be saved. Boston Massacre


March 5, 1770


Tensions between the American colonists and the British were already running high in the early spring of 1770. Late in the afternoon, on March 5, a crowd of jeering Bostonians slinging snowballs gathered around a small group of British soldiers guarding the Boston Customs House. The soldiers became enraged after one of them had been hit, and they fired into the crowd, even though they were under orders not to fire. Their shots hit and killed four civilians in an event that has come to be known as the Boston Massacre. The Intolerable Acts, actually consisted of five seperate acts, one of which was the Quatering Act, which stated that as a loyal colonist you had to house British soliders if they so desired, and there wasn't anything you could do.





That's about all I can remember from memory. I would also suggest looking them up to find out more.