forging american dream timeline

  • Sep 3, 1215

    magna carta

    included rights like trial by jury and due proccess of law protection against arbitrary taking of life liberty or property.
  • mayflower compact

    first writen framework that helped establish the u.s. government
  • petition of rights

    influenced rights in the constituion like the billeting of troops, and also helped form the third amendment
  • navigation act

    wanted to put the theory of mercantilism
  • english bill of rights

    made clear limits to clear power
    restored power to the monarch
  • proclamtion of 1763

    legal importance to first nations in canada
    variation of indigenous states in the u.s.
  • sugar act

    represented significant change in policy
  • stamp act

    required the use of tax stamp on all legal documents
  • boston tea party

    it was a protest
    put restictions on colonists
  • coercive act

    british government reaped benifits from colonists
    made colonists have larger taxes
  • first continental congress

    established the course of the congress as a statement of princibles common to all the colonists
  • first shots fired at lexington and concord

    first millitary engagements of the american revolutionary war
  • second continental congress

    adopted the declaration of independence