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Jun 15, 1215
Magna Carta
- Barons face king John to sign the Magna Carta.
- it limited the king power and guarantee certain rights to the barrons.
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mayflower compact
- written agreement composed by a consensus of the new settlers arriving at New plymouth.
- The mayflower compact was drawn up with fair and equal laws, for the general good of the settlement and with the will of the majority.
- All 41 of the adult male members on the Mayflower sugned the compact as being the first written laws of the new land.
- The signers believe that convenants were not only between God and man, but also between each other.
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The petition of right
- It limited the king's power.
- It lead people to feel that they could reduce the king's right and expand their own
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The English bill od rights
- Prohibited a standing army in peacetime and could not change or bolish laws.
- The bill of rights also provide that people had the right to petition the king with out fear.
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The Albany plan of union
- Benjamin Franklin offered it.
- He proposed the creation of an annual congress of representatives from each of the 13 colonies.
- This creation would have the power to raise military, make war and peace with native Americans, regulate trades, tax, and collect customers duties.
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The Stamp Act
- The law required the use of tax stamps on all legal documents, on certain business agreements, and on newspaper.
- The stamps cost money and England who got the money.
- The colonists quit buying stamps to show how much they resented buying stamps.
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Declaration of Right and Grievances
- The delagates prepared it in their meeting in NewYork. -It was a strong protest aganist the new British policies and sent it to the king.
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The Stamp Act Congress
- Colonies sent delegates to a meeting in New York is called Stamp Act Congress.
- They prepared a strong protest aganist new British policies and sent it to the king.
- This Act marked the first time a significant number of the colonies had joined t opposed the British government.
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The Boston Tea Party
- Group of men masked as Native Americans, boarded 3 tea ships in Boston.
- They broke open the chests and dumped the ship's load into the sea to protest British control of the tea trade.
- The passing of Tea Act imposed no new taxes on the American colonies.
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Intolerable Acts
- Parliament passed these set of laws. -King George 2 made these laws to punish the colonists for the troubles in Boston and elsewhere.
- He did this to the colonists because he wanted to punish them for dumping tea into the harbor ( Boston Tea Party)
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First Continental Congress
- The members of the first continental congress sent a declaration of rights, protesting Britian's colonial policies to king George 2. The delegates urged the colonies to refuse all trade with England until he hated taxes and trade regulations were repealed.
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Second Continental Congress
- They met in philadelphia with the battle of Lixington.
- The second continental established the militia as the continental army.
- They also elected George Washington as commander in chief of the continental army.
- It served as the first government of the U.S for the 5 years from the declaration of independance to the article of confederation
- The second continental congress fought a war, raised armies and navy, created money sysem, and borrowed funds.
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The Declaration of Independance
- Written by Thomas Jefferson.
- Had the idea that all men are created equal. people should have the right of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.
- Also gave the right to take up arms aganist the government if did not respect these rights
