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.