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Feb 3, 1215
Magna Carta
-also known as the Great Charter
-was an English document saying that no one is over the law
-protected existing rights
-jury trial was enforced
-could own land -
Feb 3, 1500
Mercantalism
-government controlled foreign trade
-high tarriffs
-monopolizing markets, export subsides, no gold or silver exports, colonies were for only gain of king or proprietor -
Jamestown Colony
-first permanent English settlement
-was a jointstock colony
-part of the Virginia Company London -
House of Burgesses
-first assemble of elected representatives of English colonists
-established by the Virginia Company -
Mayflower Compact
-written by Pilgrims
-composed fair and equal rights
-was the first written law of new world
-be free of english law
-41 male Pilgrims -
Plymouth Colony
-colony created by separatists and Puritans to seek religious freedom
-Second permanent english colony -
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
-describes government in Conn, Rivertowns
-almost like a constitution -
Culpeper's Rebellion
-Uprising due to anger of Navigation Acts
-Denied colonists a free market outside of England, people rebelled -
French and Indian War
-nick names the seven years war
-caused by hostilities between colniststs and Britain
-France was involved with the Native Americans against the colonists and Britain -
English Bill of Rights
-Precursor to American Bill of Rights
-Gave you a right to petition -
Salem Witch Trials
19 men and women hanged and convicted of witch craft -
First Great Awakening
- was a time of spiritual renewal
- the Wesley Brothers and George Whitefield took part n it -allowed to express emotions more overtly to feel intimacy with God
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Glorious Revolution
-William of Orange took throne from James the Second
-Brought permanent change within English Constitution
-Brought more constraints -
Albany Plan of Union
-proposed by Benjamin Franklin in New York
-tries to form a union with the colonies -
Pontiact's Rebellion
- was with Native American Tribes -- were upset with post war policies imposed by Britain
- was in the Great Lakes region
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Proclamation Line of 1763
-was to organize and stabilize colonies
-helped regulate trade
-King George the Third after French and Indian war to prevent colonists from expanding westward -
Sugar Revenue Act 1764
-supposed to raise revenue
-was an indirect tax
-colonists said it was abusing British privilages -
Stamp Act
-Passed by British Parliament
-All pieces of paper taxed
-Colonists more offended by standard set of Act rather than price
-Rpealed in 1766 -
Virginia Resolves
-resolutions passed by the Virginia Assembly
-Said Virginia could only be taxed in Virginia with a Virginia Rep. -
Sons of Liberty
-aided in Boston Tea Party
-did this because of agitation due to the Stamp Act -
Townsend Act
-taxed glass, paint, oil, and tea
-created more hostilities like the Stamp Act
-Most taxes repealed on April 12,1770 -
Boston Massacre
-Patriots and British had high tensions
-Snowballs, stones, and sticks were used by Patriots
-Started because of disagreements of Stampact -
Gaspee Incident
-the Gaspee was a ship
-John Brown boarded the ship and wounded the lieutenant
-John Brown set fire to ship -
Committees of Correspondance
-developed to have commonucation throughout the colonies
-ralled opposition on common causes -
Tea Act
-Gave a monopoly on tea sales to East India Company
-Colonists saw it as another way to tax without a representation -
Boston Tea Party
-Parliament posed taxes
-colonists felt hostilities
-Sons of Liberty dumped over one million dollars worth of tea into the Boston Harbor -
Intolerable Acts
-Boston Port Bill
-Quartering ACT
-Administration of Justice Act
-Mass. Gov. Act
-Quebec Act -
First Continental Congress
- was at Carpenter's Hall -56 members -unicameral and disbanded around may of 1776 -options of boycotts, rights, and redress of grievances
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Edenton Tea Party
-Penelope Barker organized it.
- The group was against taxation w/o representation
-Mirrored the Sons of Liberty -
Mecklenburg Resolves
-Citizens of Mecklenburg sinded a declaration of independence from Britain
-All from NC -
Halifax Resolves
-authorized delegates to vote for independence
-83delegates adopted the Resolves -
Second Continental Congress
-was at Independenfe Hall in Philidelphia
- was unicameral, disbanded in march of 1787
-managed the colonial war effort -
Declaration of Independence
continental conress wanted America free
-was written to Britain
-Thomas Jefferson wrote original draft -
Articles of Confederation
-provided domestic and international legitimacy to direct the Rovolutionary War
-VERY weak
-replaced by U.S. Consitution -
Treaty of Paris 1783
-ended American Revolution
-Great Britain, France, Spain, U.S. were involved in signing -
Land Ordinance of 1785
-couldnt tax people directly
-sold land for money from Revolutionary War spoils
- polictically a great move -
Shay's Rebellion
-was a post Revolutionary war clash between New England and Farmers and merchances
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Constitutional Convention
-adress problems in governing America
-Intended to Revise Articles of Confederation
-George washington was nominated president of convention -
Land Oridnance of 1787
- also called the North West Ordinance
- method for admitting new states 0had guaranteed bill of rights
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Federalist/Antifederalist Papers
Federalist: eighty-five articles written by James Mdison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay promoting the Consitution.
-Antifederalist: papers written against consitution -
Whiskey Rebellion
-first test of federal authority
-government had debts due to Revolution
-taxed all distilled spirits
-resistance, refusal, and violence were performed
