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Period: Sep 9, 1200 to
Chapter 2 Timeline
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Sep 9, 1215
Magna Carta
The Great Charter -
Limited Government
Governent is restriced in what it may do, and every individual has certain rights that government cannot take away -
The English Bill of Rights
prohibited a astanding army in peacetime -
Albany Plan of Union
the meeting was to discuss the problems of colonial trade and the danger of attacks by the French and Native Americans -
The Stamp Act Congress
Britain's harsh tax and trade policies fanned resentment in the colonies -
First Continental Congress
these new laws denounced in America as the Intolerable Acts, prompted widespread calls for a meeting of the colonies -
Declaration of Independence
Benjamin Franklin had spoken those words on July 4 -
The Articles of Confederation
was approved! -
The Critical Period
the long revolutionary was finally ended on October 19 -
Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise
Congress was forbidden the power to tax the export of goods from any state
