Civics Time Line

By AJ141
  • Mercantilism Was Enacted
    Jan 1, 1111

    Mercantilism Was Enacted

    pictureMercantilism was the dominant type of thought in Europe throughout the late Renaissance and early modern period.This was during the 15th-18th century. Mercantilism encouraged the many intra-European wars.
  • Common Law
    Jan 1, 1154

    Common Law

    pictureThe common law began in 1154 and is known to have ended in 1189.Common law is a law created by judges through decisions of courts rather than through legislative statutes or executive branch action.
  • Parliament Was Created
    Dec 14, 1241

    Parliament Was Created

    pictureThe English parliament was created to limit the monarchy
  • Magna Carta
    Jan 1, 1297

    Magna Carta

    pictureThw Magna Carta was the first document given to the English King by the feudal barons, in an attempt to limit his powers by law and protect their privileges
  • Jamestown

    Jamestown

    pictureEstablished by the Virginia Company of London it was the first permanent English settlement
  • House Of Burgess

    House Of Burgess

    picturethe first assembly of elected representatives of English colonists. The House was established by the Virginia Company, who created the body to encourage English craftsmen to settle in North America. The first meeting was held in Jamestown, Virginia, on July 30, 1619.
  • Mayflower Compact

    Mayflower Compact

    picture The Mayflower Compact was the first document of the Plymouth Colony. It was written by the colonists, in order to start a government
  • Bacons Rebellion

    Bacons Rebellion

    pictur During Bacon's Rebellion about a thousand Virginians started to resented Virginia's GovernorWilliam Berkeley's friendly policies towards the Native Americans. When Berkeley refused to do something about the indian attacks on settlements they decided to do something their selves.
  • Glorius Revolution

    Glorius Revolution

    picturealso called the Revolution of 1688, the overthrowing of King James II of England
  • Treaty Of Paris

    Treaty Of Paris

    pictureFormally ended The Revolutionary War
  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts

    pictureacts issued due to the Boston Tea Party. these acts made colonists very upset and willing to retaliate.
  • Quarterring Act 1765

    Quarterring Act 1765

    pictureThis act stated that the colonists must provide basic needs for troops when they are needed.
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act

    picturewas a tax made by the British Parliament specifically for the colonies.It stated that it was required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London
  • Townshend Act

    Townshend Act

    pictureThe purpose of the Townshend Acts were to raise money in the colonies to pay for the salaries of governors and judges so that they could be independent of colonial rule
  • Boston Massacure

    Boston Massacure

    pictureA fight against the Brittish troops and colonists because of the incident where the brittish killed civilian men
  • Tea Act

    Tea Act

    pictureWas placed to raise taxes on English tea
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    pictuevideoWas an act to rebell against the taxation the English had placed on the colonists. They decided to dump all the tea into the harbor
  • 1st Continental Congress  Begins

    1st Continental Congress Begins

    picturewas a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. The Intolerable Acts had punished Boston for the Boston Tea Party.
  • Battle Of Lexington And Concord

    Battle Of Lexington And Concord

    pictureFirs militery engagements in the American Revoltionary War the battles were fought in Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge, near Boston
  • "shot heard around the world"

    "shot heard around the world"

    picturevideoBeginning of the revolutionary war
  • 2nd Continental Congress Begins

    2nd Continental Congress Begins

    pictureThe second Congress worked on colonial war effort, and moved toward independence, by adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776
  • Mecklenburg Resolves

    Mecklenburg Resolves

    pictureThe document is known to have stated that all laws originated from the British King or Parliament are now void
  • Common Sense

    Common Sense

    picture Written by Thomas Paine to pursuade people to want independence, it was first published anonymously
  • Declatory Act

    Declatory Act

    picturedocument Made to repeal the stamp act
  • Halifax Resolves

    Halifax Resolves

    pictureThe first call for American Independence
  • Declaration Of Independence

    Declaration Of Independence

    picturedocument Document stating that the 13 colonies were independent
  • NC gets its first governor

    NC gets its first governor

    picturelist First Governor was Richard Caswell and he uniquely was not part of a political party
  • Articles Of Conderation

    Articles Of Conderation

    pictureWas an agreement of the 13 founding states that legally made the United States of America a confederation of sovereign states and also served as its first constitution
  • Massachusetts Constitution

    Massachusetts Constitution

    picturedocumentWas the last first set of state constitutions written. It is known to be more sofisticated than the rest and was verry structured.
  • Northwest Ordinance

    Northwest Ordinance

    pictureStated Congress did not have the power to raise money by direct taxation of the people of the United States. which ment the immediate goal of the ordinance was to raise money through the sale of land and the largely unmapped land west of the original states
  • Shay's Rebellion

    Shay's Rebellion

    pictureThe rebellion started on August 29, 1786, and was over by January 1787, over one thousand Shaysites were arrested. A militia that had been raised as a private army defeated an attack on the federal Springfield Army by the main Shaysite force on February 3, 1787, and five rebels were killed in the action.