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Jun 15, 1215
Magna Carta
The Magna Carta was a series of written promises, the king would govern and deal with its people. These written promises gave the king less power and limited government, trial by jury, do process of law, and the king himself cannot take someones life, liberty, or property. -
Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower Compacr was the first governing document of Plymouoth Colony, it was written by seperate "saints". They traveled with adventures, tradesmen, and servants. Most of the time they were all considered "strangers". -
Petition of Rights
The Petition of RIghts was a major English constitutional document, which sets out liberties of a subject the kings is prohinited from infriging. This document set restrictions on non-parlimentary taxation, forced billieting of soldiers, imprisonments without cause, and the use of martial law. -
Navigation Act
The Navigation Act is a series of laws that restricted the use of foreign ships while trading within Britain and the colonies. This began in 1651, and ended two-hundred years after it had started. This act also stopped colonies from trading directly with the Netherlands, Spain, France, and their other colonies. -
English Bill of RIghts
The Engilsh Bill of RIghts created the seperation of powers, limited the powers of the king and queen, and encouraged the democratic election and got freedom of speech. It also guaranteed certain rights of the citizens in England from power of the crown. The U.S. Bill of Rights was modeled after the English Bill of RIghts. -
Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation forbade all settlement past a drawn line along the Appalachian Mountains. It continues to be legal and important in first nations in Canada and the U.S. Eventually it made sure that British culture and their laws were applied in upper Canada. -
Sugar Act
The Sugar Act reduced the rate of tax on molasses from six to three pence per gallon. It listed foreign goods to be taxed such as sugar, certain wines, coffee, pimiento, cambric, and printed calico. This act also helped the export of lumber and iron. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act required everyone to put a stamp on any legal document. A quote that was used for this act was, "No taxation without representaion," which pretty much means the government can't and shouldn't raise taxes without the majority of the people approving it first. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea party was a political protest, and the demonstrators or the "Ameican Indians," had destroyed a whole shipment of tea. Soon this became an iconic event of American history. The tea party was the ket event in the growth of American Revolution. -
Coercive Act
This act took away Massachussets' self government and historic rights, doing this made a big outrage and resistance in the Thirteen colonies. This act was a key development in the outbreak of America. This was the name that the American Patriots made for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament. -
First Continental Congress
The first Continental Congress was a meeting that the twelve and thirteen colonies came together to have early in the American Revolution. It had lasted from September fifth to October twenty-sixth. They had held this meeting in Philidelphia, Pennsylvania. The congress was attended by fifty six people. -
First Shots Fired at Lexington/Concord
The first shots were fired on April 19, 1775 in Middlesex County, Massachussetts. These battles ended in colonial victory; and started the American Revolutionary War. The battles of Lexington and Concord were the first engagements of the Revolutionary War. These battles also caused conflict between the Kingdom Of Great Britain and it's thirteen colonies. -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continetal Congress was a convention between delegates that came to happen in Pennsylvania right after warfare had begun. By raising armies, directing strategies, and making formal treaties, the congress had acted like they had became what was the United States. -
Declaration Of Independence
The Declaration of Independence freed the United States from England and led us to a war against the most powerful government at that time. The Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Continental Congress meeting in Philidelphia.
