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Feb 21, 1215
Magna Carta
This document forced king John of England to proclaim certain liberties. The charter was first passed into law in 1225. -
Jamestown settled
104 settlers sailed from london to the US. They landed in Jamestown because the channal was deep and let their ship pull right next to land. -
Mayflower Compact Written
It was a social contract that made the settlers follow rules to survive. The original document was lost. -
Petition of Right
A document that sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king prohibited from infringing. It was produced by the english parliment. -
English Bill of Rights
It was a re-statement in statutory form of the Declaration of Right presented by the Convention Parliament. These ideas about rights reflected those of the political thinker John Locke and they quickly became popular in England. -
Albany Plan of Union
was proposed by Benjamin Franklin at the Albany Congress in 1754 in Albany, New York. It was an early attempt at forming a union of the colonies "under one government. -
Stamp Act
was a direct tax imposed by the British Parliament specifically on the colonies of British America. The act required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London and carrying an embossed revenue stamp. -
Boston Massacre
was an incident that led to the deaths of five civilians at the hands of British redcoats. the legal aftermath of which helped spark the rebellion in some of the British American colonies, which culminated in the American Revolutionary War. -
Boston tea Party
was a direct action by colonists in Boston, against the British government and the monopolistic East India Company that controlled all the tea coming into the colonies. after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor. -
First Continental Congress
The acts triggered outrage and resistance in the Thirteen Colonies that later became the United States. at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
Intolerable Acts
are names used to describe a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 relating to Britain's colonies in North America. The acts triggered outrage and resistance in the Thirteen Colonies that later became the United States. -
Second Continental Congress
managed the war efforts of the colonies and moved toward independence by adopting the declaration of independence. this group of men were temps of the gov body in the beginning stages of the US -
American Revolution Begins
The American Revolution was the political upheaval during the last half of the 18th century in which thirteen colonies in North America joined together to break free from the British Empire, combining to become the United States of America. By 1774 each colony had established a Provincial Congress. -
Declaration of Independence
is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress. announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were now independent states. -
Articles of Confederation
was the first constitution of the United States and specified how the Federal government was to operate. Also adoption of an official name for the new nation, United States of America. -
Constitution Convection
It addressed problems in governing the United States of America. the intention from the outset of many of its proponents, was to create a new government rather than fix the existing one. -
Philadelphia Convention
It addressed problems in governing the United States of America. the intention from the outset of many of its proponents, was to create a new government rather than fix the existing one. -
Connecticut Compromise
was an agreement between large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787. It proposed a bicameral legislature. -
Shay's Rebellion
over one thousand Shaysites had been arrested. A militia that had been raised as a private army defeated an attack on the federal Springfield Armory by the main Shaysite force.
