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Jun 15, 1215
King John signed Magna Carta
King John begrudgingly signed the Magna Carta because he needed the barons to fight his wars and collect his taxes. -
Jun 21, 1215
King John signed Magna Carta
King John begrudgingly signed the Magna Carta because he needed the barons to fight his wars and collect his taxes.
The amendments to the Constitution that Congress proposed in 1791 were strongly influenced by state declarations of rights, particularly the Virginia Declaration of Rights of 1776. -
Industrial Revolution
The First Industrial Revolution, was the transition to new manufacturing processes in Europe and the United States, in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840. -
Boston Tea Party
Colonists boarded East India Company ships and dumped their loads of tea overboard. -
Lexington & Concord battle
The first battle of the war, it marked the beginning of the American Revolution. -
Second Continental Congress
The second continental congress was a convention of delegates from the 12 of 13 colonies.The Second Continental Congress was the governing body of the American colonies from 1775 to 1781. -
Declaration of Independence
It was the birth of the United States of America as an independent nation.But July 4, 1776 wasn't the day that the Continental Congress decided to declare independence -
Saratoga Victory
The Battle of Saratoga was the turning point of the Revolutionary War. -
Yorktown battle
it is considered the last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War. The Continental Army, led by General George Washington, won a decisive victory against the British Army -
Letters from an American Farmer
St.John de Crevecoeur wrote the book "Letters from an American Farmer.
In which he describes the American, new society as an ideal for all people: a society in which there is no aristocratic class, and no religious intolerance. -
Treaty of Paris
Signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War. The treaty set the boundaries between the British Empire in North America and the United States -
The U.S Constitution
The official purpose of the Constitutional Convention was to amend the Articles of Confederation. It had, by that time, become clear that the Articles of Confederation were not a good enough constitution for the new nation. -
The Bill of Rights
Ten extra amendments to aid in protecting our individual liberties. -
Population Growth
Human population grew rapidly during the Industrial Revolution, not because the birth rate increased, but because the death rate began to fall. -
Democracy in America
The United States is a representative democracy. This means that our government is elected by citizens. Here, citizens vote for their government officials. -
Civil War
The Civil War, also known as “The War Between the States,” was fought between the United States of America and the Confederate States of America, a collection of eleven southern states that left the Union in 1860 and 1861 and formed their own country in order to protect the institution of slavery.
