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Magna Carta
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Magna Carta was the first document forced onto a King of England by a group of his subjects, the feudal barons, in an attempt to limit his powers by law and protect their privileges.
King John signed it, in England
To protect their privileges, rights and property against a tyrannical king. -
Mayflower Compact
The purpose of this document was to ensure that the settlers who came off the Mayflower and landed at Plymouth Rock would establish a fair government ruled by majority. -
Petition of Rights
The Petition of Right is a major English constitutional document that sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing.
1.No freeman should be forced to pay any tax, loan, or benevolence, unless in accordance with an act of parliament:
2.Soldiers and sailors should not be billeted on private persons;
3.Commissions to punish soldiers and sailors by martial law should be abolished
Signed by King Charles I -
English Bill of Rights
English Bill of Rights The Convention Parliament to William and Mary.
some specifics rights were given to the people like:
*No royal interference in the freedom of the people to have arms for their own defence.
*No royal interference in the election of members of parliament.
*No excessive bail or "cruel and unusual" punishments may be imposed.
*The freedom of speech and debates or proceedings in Parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parliament. -
Albany Plan of Union
Suggested by Benjamin Franklin it was a proposal to create unified government for the Thirteen Colonies.
The Board of Trade never sought official approval for the Plan from the Crown.
"Join or Die" was associated with this meeting. -
French and Indian War
The war was fought primarily between the colonies of British America and New France.
Major players in this conflict were Great Britain and France.
Some major battles were: French take Ft. Oswego (1756), Battle of Quebec (17590 and Treaty of Paris (1763)
The British won this conflict.
British taxed the colonies without thei opinion about it. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act imposed a direct tax by the British Parliament specifically on the colonies of British America,and it required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp.
These items were legal documents, magazines, newspapers and many other types of paper used throughout the colonies
The colonial leaders sometimes would comprimise by giving the buyer a stamp without paying the tax. -
Boston Massacre
Five colonists were killed.
Acts led this tragedy happen was:
*All this started because some Bostonians throw snowballs to a small group of British soldiers guarding the Boston Customs House and the British shot them back with guns, one of the guys from Boston gotshot
*Tensions between the American colonists and the British.
*Conflicts between the British and the colonists rised because the British government had been trying to increase control over the colonies and raise taxes at the same time. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts was the Patriot name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774.
The Boston Tea party caused the British to pass the Intolerable Acts.
British restricted colonist to have government/committees/town meetings, closed all of Boston's Ports until the colonist's payed for the tea they destroyed during the Boston Tea Party, and allowed them selves to house troops where ever, when ever, in the colonist's homes. -
Boston Tea Party
Boston Tea Party was a political protest in Boston, a city in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the tax policy of the British government.
The Sons of Liberty organized this event.
The British responded to the Boston Tea Party by making th Intolerable Acts which closed the Boston Ports and destroyed the Massachusetts government. -
First Continental Congress
From 1774 to 1789, the Continental Congress served as the government of the 13 American colonies and later the United States.
George Washington, Patrick Henry, John Adams, Samuel Adams, Joseph Galloway and John Dickinson were involved.
This meeting established a Continental Army, giving command to George Washington.
This meeting was hold at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. -
Lexington and Concord
*These battles that took many lives.By the end of the day, British troops had lost 273 soldiers, while the Colonists lost only 94.
*The British retreat after an intense fire.
In 1783 the colonists formaly won their independence.
The major generals involved were Lietunant Colonel Francis Smith, Brigadier General Hugh Percy and General Thomas Gage.
Paul Revere had received word of Dartmouth's secret instructions to General Gage from sources in London well before they reached Gage. -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the thirteen colonies.The second Congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.
Meeting place : : Pennsylvania State House, Philadelphia ,
To create the Continental Army
Peyton Randolph,Charles Thomson,Benjamin Franklin ,John Hancock ,Thomas Jefferson,Henry Middleton,Lyman Hall -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Indepedance
Is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the 13 American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire.
Thomas Jefferson was the one who composed the original draft of the document. -
Articles of Confederation
Seven presidents served under its laws, yet they were mainly figureheads and had little political power.
John Hanson was the first under the article. -
Start of Confederation Convention
The Constitutional Convention(also known as the Philadelphia Convention, the Federal Convention, or the Grand Convention at Philadelphia) .George Washington was unanimously elected president of the Convention, -
King George III takes power
Great Britain defeated France in the Seven Years' War, becoming the dominant European power in North America and India. Many of its American colonies were soon lost in the American Revolutionary War. Further wars against revolutionary and Napoleonic France from 1793 concluded in the defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
George III suffered from recurrent, and eventually permanent, mental illness. Many doctors said that he suffered from the blood disease porphyria.
