Events Leading to American Democracy

By xenamcmanus
  • Magna Carta
    Jun 15, 1215

    Magna Carta

    The Magna Carta was the first time a king gave up power to the people

  • house of burgesses

    first assembly met on July 30, 1619, in the church at Jamestown

  • Glorious Revolution

    was the overthrow of King James II of England, VII of Scotland and II of Ireland by a union of English Parliamentarians
  • French and indian war

    French and indian war

    was fought between the colonies of British America and New France, with both sides supported by military

  • Boston Massacre

    street fight that occurred between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers

  • Boston Tea Party

    political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston

  • First Continental Congress

    organize colonial resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts

  • second Continental Congress

    convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting

  • Declaration of Independence

    states that a government exists for the benefit of the people and that "all men are created equal”

  • Treaty of paris

    signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America

  • Shays rebellion

    uprising led by a former militia officer

  • constitutional convention

    a gathering for the purpose of writing a new constitution or revising an existing constitution