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The "Great Charter" which limited the power of the Monarch by assuring no one would be above the law. This was the origin of the rule of law.
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A compact in which 41 Pilgrims agreed on the rules of their government before settling in the new world.
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A Government Document which expanded the rights of Parliament and the people while limiting those of the monarch.
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A collection of newspaper articles written by Cato the Elder and Cato the Younger which argued the King's rule.
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A costly war which Britain fought against France.
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An Ideology adopted by Great Britain which involves acquiring and basing power of off wealth. This caused Britain to heavily tax their colonies.
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An act which required Colonists to pay taxes on newspapers and legal documents.
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An act which stated that Parliament had the right to tax and make all decisions for its colonies.
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An act that imposed new taxes on goods such as glass, tea, paper, and lead which could not be produced in the Americas. This act caused a boycott.
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A riot which began as a simple street brawl during a protest and ended with British Soldiers killing five colonists
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An act which gave the British East India Company the right to ship tea to the colonies without paying taxes. This gave a considerable advantage to the British company and hurt colonial merchants.
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An act created in response to the Boston tea party, which restricted colonist's rights to fair trials by jury and allowed British soldiers to search and move into colonists' homes.
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A group of colonists dressed as Native Americans dumped 342 boxes of British tea into the Boston harbor.
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A meeting in Philidelphia in which delegates sent a document to King George demanding that colonist's rights be restored.
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Congress in Philadelphia in which delegates argued for six months about whether or not they should fight for independence.
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First battles engaged in the Revolutionary war.
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A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that explained Revolutionary ideas in simple terms that could be easily understood by common colonists
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Written by Thomas Jefferson, it was a document which argued that king George was mistreating the colonists and declared independence from Great Britain.
