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Jun 15, 1215
Magna Carta
charter agreed by King John of England t Runnymede,, near Windsor. It was first made to make peace between the king and a group of rebel barons. It promises the protection of church rights, barons from illegal imprisonment, access to swift justice, and limitations on feudal payments to the crown. -
Jamestown Settled
site of first successful English settlement on the mainland of North America. -
Mayflower Compact Written
Written onboard the Mayflower shortly after she came to anchor off Provincetown Harbor. The Pilgrims had obtained permission from English authorities to settle in Virginia, whose northern border at the time extended up to what is now New York. -
Albany Plan of Union
was a proposal to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies, suggested by Benjamin Franklin, then a senior leader (age 48) and a delegate from Pennsylvania, at the Albany Congress in July 1754 in Albany, New York. -
Stamp Act
act of the Parliment in Great Britain that imposed direct taxing on the colonies of British America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamper paper from London. -
Boston Massacre
Incident on King Street by the British was an incident that killed 5 male civilians and injured 6 others, they were shot by British Soldiers. -
Intolerable Acts
Series of laws sponsered by the British government in response to the Boston Tea Party. Harshest Acts set by the British Parliament. -
Declaration of Independence
the name of a statement adopted by the Continental Congress which announced that the thirteen American colonies were now 13 independent sovereign states and no longer apart of the British Empire. -
First Continetial Congress
was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
Second Continential Congress
was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun. -
American Revolution Begins
Rebeliion of the 13 colonies, war began in the resistance of the Mericans to taxes imposed ny the British Parliment. -
Articles of Confederation
first written constitution of the United States. it was createdon November 5th but was not ratified until March. -
Shay's Rellion
Shays' Rebellion is the name given to a series of protests in 1786 and 1787 by American farmers against state and local enforcement of tax collections and judgments for debt. -
Philadelphia Convention
took place from May 25 to September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to address problems in governing the United States of America, which had been operating under the Articles of Confederation following independence from Great Britain. -
Connecticut Compromise
was an agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States Constitution. -
Boston Tea Party
Sam Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston Harbor and threw 324 chests of tea overboard. This resulted in the passage of te punitive Coercive Acts in 1774.
