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Magna Carta
This document limited the powers of King John caused by taxation and enforcement of foreign policies. Also later applied to the governments powers for the colonies and beyond (aka common law). -
Jamestown Erected
It was a Disaster and started with malaria.
-Gentlemen (high class) and poor workers(low class) came
-John Smith came over to govern and create a stable environment
-Starving time due to lack of resources
- Recovery occured when supplies and workers arrived, an increase in population (60 women) and Smith formed the first government-House of Burgesses -
Mayflower Compact and Plymouth
More pilgrims from Europe and erected the colony of Plymouth, overall successfully. Erected agreement of the Mayflower compact that was the governing document of Plymouth and bound all the pilgrims together under one document. -
Puritans Created
John Winthrop assembled a group of extremely devout and religious people. Winthrop led this group of colonists in a pilgrimage to the new world. -
Petition of RIght
This petition hosted creation and limitation of taxes, trials, elections. Reinforcements of the rights of parl. and gov. -
Puritan Population Grows
The puritans group grows and hits a population of over 20,000 people. -
English Bill of Rights
This Bill created freedoms of speech and religion. -
Puritans Absorb Plymouth
made the government their religion, Puritan church only and scripture was their guide. -
Albany Plan of Union
This was a plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government, meet in the Albany Congress -
Stamp Act
Laws on printed materials, legal document, playing cards, newspapers -
Townsend Act
This act put limits on glass, paint, tea, and paper. Caused the Boston Massacre. -
Boston Massacre
This event a confrontation in which British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob protesting the various acts imposed by the government in Boston. -
Tea Act
Caused by the Boston Tea Party, took off most taxes on tea -
Boston Tea Party
The American colonists were frustrated and riled at Britain for imposing the concept of “taxation without representation,” dumped almost 342 chests of tea, imported by the BEIC into the Boston harbor. -
Continental Congress
This year held the first continental congress, main players were George Washington, John Adams, Sam Adams, John Jay, Patrick Henry. At this event they drew up declaration of rights, Ban on ALL British imports, 1 year to see how all this worked-then they would meet again. -
Intolerable Act
Response to the Boston Tea Party, passed by the British Parliament The laws were meant to punish the colonists for the Tea Party protest. -
Second Continental Congress
This convention of delegates from the 13 colonies that formed in Philadelphia in soon after the launch of the American Revolutionary War. -
American Revolution Begins
This was caused by British soldiers and colonists' militia exchanging gunfire at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts. Event is also known as "the shot heard round the world," and signaled the start of the American Revolution. -
Early Colonial Charters Change
represented assemblies and government selected by a king, and after this date they converted charters into constitutions -
Declaration of Independence
This was the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress, told how the US would be governed and is still in use today. -
Articles of Confederation
Approved by the Second Continental Congress, this was an agreement among the 13 original states of the United States of America that served as its first constitution. -
Shay's Rebellion
This event was armed uprising by the colony in Western Massachusetts and was a response to a debt crisis and in caused state government's increased efforts to collect taxes both on individuals and their trades. -
Philadelphia Convention
Also known as the Constitutional Convention. This convention decided how America was going to be governed. Although there was more discussed by the delegates. -
Connecticut Compromise
This event provided a dual system of congressional representation and due to this each state would be assigned a number of seats in proportion to its population (House of Representatives)
