Block1McdougalEvents/docs

  • Magna Carta
    Jan 1, 1215

    Magna Carta

    A document that made a law where the power of the people to take over the leader
  • Mayflower Compact

    Mayflower Compact

    The first governing document of the Plymoth colony
  • Petition of Rights

    Petition of Rights

    The Petition of Rights were rights that the pople that the king could not mess with.
  • Navigation Act

    Navigation Act

    The Navigtion act were laws that restrricted english form foreign shipping.
  • The English Bill of Rights

    The English Bill of Rights

    The English Bill of Rights was a bill that prohibited standing army in a peace time.
  • Proclimation of 1763

    Proclimation of 1763

    This document refused to accept parlaments claim and this claim had the right to control their local afairs.
  • The Sugar Act

    The Sugar Act

    The act of the people to lower taxes on sugar and molasses.
  • The Stamp Act

    The Stamp Act

    The direct tax on the colonies. They were taxted on printing legall things (Newspapers,etc.) and they needed a tax stamp to use the papers.
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    The rebelion against taxes on tea
  • First Contintal Conress

    First Contintal Conress

    The first continental congress was an act of laws passes against the British.
  • Second Continental congress

    Second Continental congress

    The second continental congress was when everone came together after the british didnt want to comprimise and the first shot was fired.
  • The Declaration of Independence

    The Declaration of Independence

    This document was a peace treaty with britain and it show our peace with britain,