Government Timeline- Reed Snyder

  • Magna Carta
    1214

    Magna Carta

    A document, signed by the king, that limited monarchy and subjected everyone to the law.
  • Christopher Columbus
    1492

    Christopher Columbus

    Columbus discovers America
  • Jametown

    Jametown

    The first permanent settlement.
  • House of Burgesses

    House of Burgesses

    The first colonial legislator in the British-American colonies.
  • Mayflower Compact

    Mayflower Compact

    This foundational document created a "civil body politic" for order and law, pledging submission to the colony's rules for the general good.
  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763

    Prohibited colonists from settling in the west.
  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act

    A tax imposed on sugar by the British.
  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act

    Imposed tax on all printed good by Britain. Resulted in widespread protests.
  • Tea Act

    Tea Act

    British imposed tax on tea, resulted in the Boston Tea Party.
  • Coercive Acts

    Coercive Acts

    British retaliation against the colonists, result of the Boston Tea Party.
  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress

    A meeting which repealed the Intolerable Acts, resulted in more boycotts, and allowed colonists to for militias.
  • Second Continental Congress

    Second Continental Congress

    United support for the American Revolution, which resulted in the Declaration of Independence
  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

    Battle of Lexington and Concord

    The Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, were the first major military actions between the British Army and Patriot militias from British America's Thirteen Colonies during the American Revolutionary War.
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

    A document which declared American Independence from Britain.
  • Articles of Confederation

    Articles of Confederation

    the first constitution of the United States, establishing a "league of friendship" among the thirteen states.
  • 1st Amendment

    1st Amendment

    freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly and petition
  • 2nd Amendment

    2nd Amendment

    Right to Bear Arms
  • 4th Amendment

    4th Amendment

    Search and Seizure
  • 3rd Amendment

    3rd Amendment

    Quartering of Soldiers
  • 5th Amendment

    5th Amendment

    Grand Jury, Double Jeopardy, Self Incrimination, Due Process, Takings
  • 6th Amendment

    6th Amendment

    Right to Speedy Trial by Jury, Witnesses, Counsel
  • 7th Amendment

    7th Amendment

    Jury Trial in Civil Lawsuits
  • 8th Amendment

    8th Amendment

    Excessive Fines, Cruel and Unusual Punishment
  • 9th Amendment

    9th Amendment

    Non-Enumerated Rights Retained by People
  • 10th Amendment

    10th Amendment

    Rights Reserved to States or People
  • 11th Amendment

    11th Amendment

    Suits Against States
  • 12th Amendment

    12th Amendment

    Election of President and Vice President
  • The Battle of Gettysburg

    The Battle of Gettysburg

    The Battle of Gettysburg was a three-day battle in the American Civil War, which was fought between the Union and Confederate armies between July 1 and July 3, 1863, in and around Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
  • Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

    Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln was assassinated
  • 13th Amendment

    13th Amendment

    Abolition of Slavery
  • 14th Amendment

    14th Amendment

    Citizenship Rights, Equal Protection, Apportionment, Civil War Debt
  • 15th Amendment

    15th Amendment

    The 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1870, granted African American men the right to vote by prohibiting states from denying suffrage based on "race, color, or previous condition of servitude"
  • 16th Amendment

    16th Amendment

    The 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, giving Congress the power to levy a federal income tax.
  • 17th Amendment

    17th Amendment

    It established the direct election of United States senators in each state.
  • 18th Amendment

    18th Amendment

    Establishing national prohibition of alcohol.
  • 19th Amendment

    19th Amendment

    It granted American women the right to vote
  • The Great Depression

    The Great Depression

    The Great Depression officially began with the stock market crash.
  • 20th Amendment

    20th Amendment

    shortens the "lame duck" period by moving the start of presidential and congressional terms to January 20th and January 3rd, respectively, after the November election, and provides procedures for presidential succession if the President-elect dies or becomes incapacitated before inauguration
  • 21th Amendment

    21th Amendment

    Ending the national prohibition of alcohol (Prohibition) in America.
  • Pearl Harbor

    Pearl Harbor

    A surprise aerial assault by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service on the U.S. naval base in Hawaii, which led directly to the United States entering World War II the following day.
  • 22nd Amendment

    22nd Amendment

    No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice.
  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War

    The Vietnam War pitted communist North Vietnam and the Viet Cong against South Vietnam and the United States. The war ended when US forces withdrew in 1973.
  • 23rd Amendment

    23rd Amendment

    granted residents of Washington, D.C. (the District of Columbia) the right to vote in presidential elections by giving the district electors in the Electoral College
  • Assassination of JFK

    Assassination of JFK

    John F. Kennedy was shot in Dallas, Texas.
  • 24th Amendment

    24th Amendment

    It abolished and forbids the federal and state governments from imposing taxes on voters during federal elections.
  • 25th Amendment

    25th Amendment

    This amendment clarifies procedures for presidential and vice-presidential succession and addresses presidential disability or incapacitation.
  • Apollo 11

    Apollo 11

    Apollo 11 was the first spaceflight to land humans on the Moon, conducted by NASA from July 16 to 24, 1969.
  • 26th Amendment

    26th Amendment

    It lowered the voting age for all Americans to eighteen years.
  • 27th Amedment

    27th Amedment

    The amendment prevents Congress from passing laws that increase or decrease the salaries of its members until after a new election has taken place.
  • 9/11 Attacks

    9/11 Attacks

    Colloquially and perhaps more commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001.