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Jun 15, 1215
Signing of Magna Carta
-Location: Bank of River Thames near Windsor
-Information:
• “Magna Carta” is Latin for “Great Charter”
• It is one of the most important documents of Medieval England
• The document was a series of written promises between the king and his subjects that he the king would govern England and deal with its people according to customs of federal law. -
First Colony Founded
-Location: Jamestown, Virginia
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• British Empire settled its first permanent colony in Americas.
• The first of 13 colonies in America.
• Founded by London Company. -
Last Colony Founded
-Location: Georgia
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• Founded long after the other 12 colonies.
• Founded by James Edward Oglethorpe. -
Signing of the Petition Right
-Location: London, England
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• Produced by English Parliament and sent to Charles 1 as a statement of civil liberties.
• Initiated by Sir Edwards Coke.
• Based upon earlier statues and charters and assorted 4 principles. -
Implementation of English Bill of Rights
-Location: London, England
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• Restatement in statutory form of Declaration of right.
• Lays down limits on powers of monarch and sets out rights of parliament.
• Sets out certain rights on individuals including the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment. -
Albany Plan of Union
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• A plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government.
• Representatives from 7 of British North American colonies adopted a plan
• Albany Plan was first important proposal to conceive colonies as a collective whole united under one government. -
George 111 comes to throne
-Location: London, England
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• Following his grandfather’s death, he became king of Great Britain and Ireland.
• Before then he was Duke and Prince elector of Brunkswick Luneburg. -
Stamp Act Congress Convenes
-Location: NYC
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• Colonists convened the Stamp Act congress to vocalize their opposition to the tax.
• The congress became quickly divided. -
Stamp Act goes into effect
-Location: NYC
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• Went to effect in all 13 colonies.
• First act directed specifically at the colonies.
• It placed a tax on all contracts, wills, permits, newspapers, pamphlets, and dice used in American Colonies. -
Boston Massacre
-Location: Boston
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• The killing of 5 colonists by British regulars.
• Described as the spark that ignited the Revolutionary War. -
Boston Tea Party
-Location: Boston Harbor
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• Samuel Adams and the Son of Liberty boarded 3 ships in the Boston Harbor.
• They threw 342 chests of tea overboard.
• In Boston, the colonists demanded the tea ships return to Britain, so the British refused so the colonists took matters into their own hands. -
Fitrst Continental Congress
-Location: Carpentars Hall in Philadelphia
-All colonies except Georgia sent delegates.
-The colonies presented there were united in a determination to show a combined authority to Great Britian. -
Start of the American Revolution
-Location: Concord, Massachusetts
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• Tense atmosphere the night before.
• Paul Revere arranged for a signal sent by lantern by steeple.
• The messengers cried out an alarm, awakening every house warning the British. -
Second Continentsl Congress
-Location: Philadelphia
-Information:
-most of the delegates from the first meeting attended the second meeting.
-Here, they decided how they were going to form a country -
Signing of Declaration of Independence
-Location: Philadelphia
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• There were 56 signers
• Statement adopted by Continental Colonies regarded themselves.
• Announced that 13 American Colonies regarded themselves as 13 newly independent sovereign states, no longer apart of British Empire. -
Articles of Confederation adopted
-Location: Philadelphia
-Information:
-After 16 months of debate they were adopted.
-Maryland didnt ratify the agreement until March 1, 1781. -
Shays Rebellion
-Location: Massachuttes
-Information:
-an armed uprising that some historians argue " fundamentally altered the coarse of U.S. History.
-A series of protests by American Farmers against state and local enforcemnt of tax collections and judgements for debt went on for about a year.
