Events of the Constitution

Magna Carta signed

Jun 24, 1215

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/magna_carta.htmThe Magna Carta was a written document created between the king and his people. This was made so that the King would not abuse his power, with this document the citizens were protected. The king agreed to sign this uder the sole reason that the barons provided him with money and men to fight for his country.

Mayflower Compact signed

Nov 11, 1620

http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/PrimarySources/MayflowerCompact.phpThe Mayflower Compact was made when the pilgrams came over to temporarily make some sort of goverment in which the people could live with. It gave the people to be self governed.

Formation of the New England Confederation

May 19, 1643

http://www.colonialwarsct.org/1643.htmThis confederation united the colonies of New England. This "board" had 8 comisioners which added up to two representatives for each colony.In this group they discused issues or problems among the colonies and in order to get your rule passed you needed 6 out of 8 votes.

Albany Plan of Union announced

Jul 10, 1754

http://www.constitution.org/bcp/albany.htm
This plan was created by Benjimain Franklin that stated a colonial legistlator would choose delegates to participat in the American continantal assembly. This new plan let the Royal Magisty pick the President general who would be the one to over see their goverment and make desisions. There was also a house of Representatives that let the colonies voices be heard by the President general

The French and Indian war Begin

Oct 25, 1754

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/french_indian.htm This war was between Frace and Britian. Both countries were fighting over land west of the colonies over the appilation mountains.

Royal Proclamation

Oct 7, 1763

http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/proc63.htm
This Proclamation was made by King George the 3rd. The Proclamation stated the new defined colonies and their boundries. Also it said that there was to be no settlement west of the Appalation Mountains.

Sugar act

Apr 5, 1764

http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/sugaract.htm
This was when the jing taxed the colonies for any type of sugar product such as molasses in order to help pay war reparations and support this army.

The Stamp act

Feb 6, 1765

http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/stampact.htm
This act was another way Parlament tried to make war reperatons and suport their army. This act said that any paper goods were to have a tax and had to have a seal on them to prove that they had been paid for.

Stapm act Congress

Oct 17, 1765

http://www.ushistory.org/us/10a.asp
This Congress began the motto "no taxation withouth representation". The colonist were feeling that they were being unfairly taxed and wanted to do something about it.They intended on trying to repeal both the sugar and stam acts and wanted to try to get other acts repealed as well so they could have a say in not only what they were being taxed on but how much they were being taxed.

The Townshend Acts

Aug 20, 1767

http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/townshend.htm
The Townshend acts were when britains was unfairly taxing the collonies and making them pay taxes with the quartering act, the sugar act, and the stamp act. The colonists stongly disliked those acts and wished to abolish them and have no taxation with out representation.

Boston Massacre

Mar 5, 1770

http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/massacre.htm
The Boton Massacre was an outbrust between the colonist and some british troops. The colonist were throwing snowballs and ice chunks at the british soldiers and somewhere in the mix one of the soldiers gun went off trigering other british soldiers to fire their guns as well. this was one event leading to the revolutionary war.

Boston Tea Party

Dec 16, 1773

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-boston-tea-party
Thia was when the Colonist were only being taxed on tea unfairly. the colonist began making their own home made tea and refused to buy the tea that Britian had shiped was cheeper than the tea they were smuggling in. One night a bunch of colonist dressed as indians boarded the ship and dumped 115000 pounds of tea into the boston harbor.

first Continental Congress

Sep 5, 1774

http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/congress.htm
A meeting was called in PA, with 55 delegates from 12 colonies. The New England Radicals were expected to dominate the meeting making everyone elses opinion matter a little less, but the Southern Colonies were the ones to take the bull by the horns and Joseph Gallaway from PA made a plan called the Gallaway plan.

Patrick Henry "Give Me Liberty"

Mar 30, 1775

http://www.history.org/almanack/life/politics/giveme.cfm
Patrick Henry gave this speech at the Virginia Confrence. He critisized the way Britain was acting and that how the colonies should be treated equal and that the only way to acomplish this was to fight and go to war.

Midnight ride of Paul Revere

Apr 18, 1775

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1261.html
Paul Revere and two other men got on their horses to warn everyone that the british were on their way. Paul revere was the first on to get to Sam Adams and John Handcock to tell them the news.

Battles of Lexington and Concord

Apr 19, 1775

http://www.history.com/topics/battles-of-lexington-and-concord
Was the First Battle to kick off the Revolution. Was a result of the colonies tensions with Britian. Had a big Debate over who fired the First shot, most Americans said it was britian, and most British people said it was the Amerians. There is no definate answer of who did fire the First shot.

Fort Ticonderoga

May 10, 1775

http://www.history.com/topics/capture-of-fort-ticonderoga
Was built in upstate New York. It was sereved as a French and canadian training Facility and was abandoned by the british. It now serves as a Tourist atraction because it was striped of it metal and useable stone.

Second Continental Congress meets

May 10, 1775

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h656.html
John Hancock took the lead role of this meeting, which contained some of the same members as last time but had many new members as well. The Disscused things like independance, war dept,and war strategies and tactics.

Battle of Bunker Hill

Jun 17, 1775

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/84721/Battle-of-Bunker-Hill
This was the first major battle that was faught in Charlestown. The British won this battle, but even though the Americans lost they proved to the British that they were stronger than they thought and that they were not going down with out a fight.

"Common Sense" Published

Jan 9, 1776

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/thomas-paine-publishes-common-sense
Written by Thomas Paine. The Purpose of this document was to make the people realize that they needed to break away From Britian and that Britain were a bunch of murderors . He also said any relation with Britain would be forced and unnatural.

British Evacuate Boston

Mar 17, 1776

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/british-evacuate-boston
General George Washington secretly lead troops to Dorchestor. General Washington made fortifications around dorchestor and was successful in pushing the British out of boston and forced them to evacuate.

Declaration of Independence announced

Jul 8, 1776

http://www.ushistory.org/gop/tour_indhall.htm
the members of congress voted on july 4th in secret that declared that day as a new nation was born. The declaration of independace was created by tomas Jefferson. It wasn't untill July 8th when the congress announced the signing of the declaration of independace.

"the Crisis" was published

Dec 4, 1776

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timeline/amrev/north/paine.html
Tomas Paine wrote this famos doccument. One of the Qutes that is used still is "these are the times that try men's souls." this quote was refering to the Revolutionary war, because the colonist had to show what they were made of.

Washington Captures Trenton

Dec 26, 1776

http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/americanrevolution/p/American-Revolution-Battle-Of-Trenton.htm
On the night of christmas day Washington sent his troops across the Deleware River. This move was made so that they could suprise the British an Hessians. Washington was successful and was able to make the British retreat.

Winter at Valley Forge PA

Jan 29, 1777

http://www.ushistory.org/us/11f.asp
Valley Fordge was a training Facility was for the Continental Army. At Valley forge They trained in traditional european style of war craft. During the winter there were shortages of everything as far as clothes, food, and medicine. Many of the soldiers were getting sick and were passing it on to others.

British Defeated at Saratoga

Oct 7, 1777

http://www.ushistory.org/us/11g.asp
It was a battle in Upstate New York that was the turning point of the Continental Army who won that Battle. This made the French decide that they wanted to formally Ally themselves with the Continental Army.

Articles of confederation signed

Nov 15, 1777

http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/articles.htmlColonies wanted to establish another goverment system that would make them a stronger country. These new set of guidlines required the goverment to regulate the colonies much more but in the long run would provide stability, strength and support for every colony.

Benedict Arnold Plans found out

Oct 19, 1780

http://www.historywiz.com/benedictarnold.htm
Benedict arnold had betrayed the Colonies by weakening their spot a west point and making a mockery of George Washington. He was never trusted by the colonies again and his relationship with britain was still a little on edge because they didn't trust him.

Spain closes Mississippi River

Oct 3, 1781

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This was when spain wouldn't let anyone pass through the Mississippi River because basically America made a treaty with France and Spain and france were not on great terms. The Spanish then blocked the Mississippi not letting any U.S. ships pass and if the ships did try to pass they were attacked.

Cornwallis Surrenders

Oct 19, 1781

http://www.aoc.gov/capitol-hill/historic-rotunda-paintings/surrender-lord-cornwallis
In Yorktown VA General Cornwallis surrendured to the Continental army ending the revolution. The surendure was right after the Three week seige had taken place in the same town.

Newburgh Conspiracy

Mar 10, 1783

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This took place as the goverment was awaiting the decission from Great Britian with there army at the ready. They men of the U.S. army were demanding pay and other thing and refused to fight unless their demands were made. The Goverment Tip toed around this saying that there would be a resolution in the feature and never fully gave into the armys wishes.

Treaty of Paris signed

Sep 3, 1783

http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/wwww/us/treatyofparis1783def.htmThis treaty ended the war by claiming United states as its own nation and having britian reconise it as such. As a result of Britian reconizing this they took their troops out of the nation and give it some set boarders. The United States agreed to paay its debt and to make sure to still allow some troops as long as they don't interfiere too much.

Treaty of Paris

Sep 3, 1783

http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=6 This signifyed the end of the revolutionary war. The coloniees gained their independence from Britian. The Untied states also got some land between tha Mississippi and the Appalation mountains.

Ordinance of Religious Freedom

Jan 16, 1785

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The Ordinance of Religous Freedom began in Virginia where Tomas Jefferson agued that freedom of religion should be included in our natural rights. He said that even our civil rights had no protection on what religous freeddom we had. Religion should be scacred and treasured by men and what they choose to beleive.

Land Ordinance of 1785

May 20, 1785

http://www.in.gov/history/2478.htm
The United States had purcased much land and needed to divide it amoung all the states and colonies. Due to the fact that this was a huge job Congress apointed a survayor for each state so they could measure out the towns and observe the land.The survayors also had to maesure and number each town and the town had to report to congress and agree to the prices that congress set to sell the land.

Annapoiis Convention

Sep 14, 1786

http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch6s2.htmlCommissoners from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Virginia met to talk about trade and other things involving the U.S. and other nations. They talked about making a "uniform system" so that trade would have to be done a certain way in each state. this was an unagreeable sittuation for some states and none of them could concider a compromise. They also discoused giving more power to the Commissioners.

Shays' Rebellion

Jan 27, 1787

http://www.thenagain.info/webchron/usa/shaysreb.htmlDaniel Shays was out raged by the amount of farms that had gone been forclosed and decided to take matters into his own hand. Shays lead the farmers whose farms had been forclosed to an amunition base and they got guns and marched to To Springfield to protest.

Constitutional convention opens

May 14, 1787

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/constitutional-convention-beginsThis convention included representatives from every state except Rhode Island. Durning this convention the representatives wanted nothing to do with mending the articles of confeduration so they left them be and moved on to talk about a new agenda regaurding the goverment. The new system they made had many checks and balances. By the end of the convention 38 out of 41 representatives signed the Constitution of the United States

Northwest Ordinance of 1787

Jul 13, 1787

http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/milestones/ordinance/The Northwest ordinance was about the new territory in the northwest being included in the goverment as well. It established this territory as well as it made it offically part of the congress as well. There were a large amount of new settlers that were coming in wo those lands which also helped convince congress to grant their request.

the great compromise is agreed to

Jul 16, 1787

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The Great compromise was made between the delegates that was basicaly about having a porportional goverment or having an equal goverment. The delagates basicaly came to an agreement by compromising that the senate should be equal and have two representatives from each state and that the house of representatives could be proportiion and would depend on how bi a states population was.

anti-federalist articles appear

Sep 10, 1787

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h374.htmlAll of the anti-federalists were concerned about the constitution wasn't equaly dividing up the power between branches. At this time they believed that too much power to the goverment would result in disfunction and would start to take away some of our rights that we worked so hard to get. These people began writing up articles to warn the people of what could happen.

Constitution sent to the states for ratification

Sep 17, 1787

http://thomas.loc.gov/teachers/constitution.htmlThe final draft of the constitution was sent to the states for approval that had been signed by 39 delagates. The document was passed and put into affect imediatly in many states. The new constitution had a strong central goverment in place this time hoping that could resolve many issues by giving a bit more power to the goverment that wsa run by the people.

Federalists papers appear

Oct 20, 1787

http://jcpa.org/dje/articles/federalist.htmThe federalists were the people who were in support of the Constitution. You would mostly find these articles in news papers, these news papers were using propoganda to help gain supporters for the federalist that way they had many people who backed the new constitution and that they would be able to carry out the constitution. most of this information was only one sided though.

Delaware ratifies

Dec 7, 1787

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/delaware-ratifies-the-constitutionDelaware was the first state to ratify the Constitution. This ratification helped states realize that states were not only open to another legal document but were willing to embrace it as well. Delaware's vote was ununanimous which resulted in no fighting over what was going to happen and people just accepted it.

Massachusetts ratifies Constitution

Feb 6, 1788

http://www.usconstitution.net/rat_ma.htmlWas the sixth state to ratify the Constitution. Was the first state to come out and say they had some changeges they would like to make to adjust the constitution to make it better for the people and states as well.

new hampshire ratifies constitution

Jun 21, 1788

http://www.usconstitution.net/rat_nh.htmlwas the ninth state to ratify the new constitution. The constitution by then was already in full affect and NH also had a few ways the would like to modify the constitution so that the goverment could take away any citizens rights unless said citizen created a crime or something that could cause alarm that the don't deserve these rights.

Congress meets for first time

Mar 4, 1789

http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/nominations/SupremeCourt/SupremeCourtHistory.cfmOne of the first items the cogress adressed was the judicial branch. They compromised with congress and instead of having supream court right away they had Chief Justice and five Associate Justices. This was congresses way of dealing with the first problem brought to attention.

George Washington elected President

Apr 30, 1789

http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/georgewashingtonWas part on the adjusting of the Articles of confederation and was an active participant in helping ratif the constitution. was unanimously elected for president. Insisted on a neutral state during the french revolution whcih he felt would help The United states maintain peace on its own and made us grow stronger.

Bill of rights sent to the states for ratification

Dec 15, 1790

http://www.whitehouse.gov/our-government/the-constitutionThere were 12 amendments total that tried to please both the federalists and the anti-federalist. Both groups had totaly different opinions and the bill of rights was to please the anti-federalist because now they had their rights writen down so that no one could take their rights away from them.

Bill of rights ratified

Dec 15, 1791

http://www.ushistory.org/documents/amendments.htmthe bill is in action and is being enforced. Most people are happy ll because it lets them know all of their rights and it helps them better understand how they are protected by the law.

Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions written

Dec 5, 1798

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/630019/Virginia-and-Kentucky-Resolutions
These Resolutions were written by Tomas Jefferson and James Madison. they were basically saying that the goverment was over using there power and needed to take a step back.

Hartford Convention meets during War of 1812

Dec 15, 1814

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Delegates fom New England States met in Hartford to discuss a plan of opposition to war. New endland was anti-popular sovereignty and wanted to make amendments that would give the south and west less power.

Missouri Compromise

Feb 16, 1820

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This was a compromise that was made to balance power between the slave states and free states. In this compromise they declared Maine as a free state and Missouari as a slave state. And didn't allow slavery in the teritory in the North of Louisiana.

tariff of abominations passed

Apr 22, 1828

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Was made to protect New England manufactering industries and Western agriculturing products. They made a tax on foriegn goods wich ended up devaluing the Southern production of cotten.

James Polk elected

Nov 5, 1844

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Was elected by the democrate party. Wanted Western Expansion which gave him a one up because other canidates avoided that topic. Polk served one term and was able to greatly expand to the west during his term.

Mexican War

Apr 25, 1846

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This war took place when President Polk was in charge. The reason war stated was because the U.S. wanted more land. This war took place By Rio grande and it was for the most part over the land of Texas.

Wilmot Proviso

Aug 8, 1846

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This was submitted by David Wilmot who was a democrate. It was ,ade to prevent slavery in the new territory gained from the Mexican war.The Proviso didn't pass though.

California enters the Union

Sep 9, 1850

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