Chapter 2: 1-2 Jordyn Clark

By jordyn_n_clark
  • Jan 1, 1215

    King John was forced to sign the Magna Carta

    Rule of Law- no one is above the law, not even the King. It established equality under the law.

  • Jamestown was founded

  • Virginia House of Burgesses was established

  • Pilgrims signed Mayflower Compact

  • Charles I took throne

  • Charles I called Parliament back into session

  • Puritan immigrants began to settle

  • The colony created the Great Fundamentals

  • Puritans created the Fundamental Orders of Conneticut

  • Parliament removed James II from thrown and crowned William III and Mary II

  • French and Indian War began

  • Benjamin Franklin proposed the Albany Plan of Union

  • George III became king

  • French and Indian War ended

  • Stamp Act of 1765

  • Stamp Act Congress

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Committees of correspondence were urging resistance to the British

  • Delegats met in Philadelphia for the First Continental Congress

  • Battle at Lexington and Concord

  • America declared its independence from Great Britain

  • Eight states had adopted written constitutions

  • Richard Henry Lee introduced a resolution to the Continental Congress

  • Congress approved Lee's resolution

  • Congress approved the Declaration of Independence

  • Jefferson asked John Adams and Benjamin Franklin to look over his draft

  • French Revolution