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Jun 15, 1215
June of 1215
On this date the Magna Carta was signed. It was to limit the king from gaining too much power. -
Jamestown
First permanent englsih settlement in the Americas. Established by the Virginia company. Failed many times but survived due to people like john Smith and others. -
Mayflower Compact written
The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by the Separatists, sometimes referred to as the "Saints", fleeing from religious persecution by King James of England. -
Petition of Riight
The Petition of Right is a major English constitutional document that sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing. Passed on 7 June 1628, the Petition contains restrictions on non-Parliamentary taxation, forced billeting of soldiers, imprisonment without cause, and the use of martial law. -
Stamp Act
This law was passed in the UK to tax publishers especially on newspapers. It also required that all pamphlets, legal documents, commercial bills, advertisements, and other papers issued the tax. -
Albany Plan of Union
The Albany Plan of Union was a proposal to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies, suggested by Benjamin Franklin. -
Boston Massacre
an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others.This famous depiction of the event was engraved by Paul Revere -
Boston Tea Party
political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773. The demonstrators, some disguised as American Indians, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company, in defiance of the Tea Act of May 10, 1773. -
First Continental Congress
A convention of delegates from twelve colonies (Georgia was not present) at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. It was called in response to the passage of the Coercive Acts (also known as Intolerable Acts by the Colonial Americans) by the British Parliament. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts was the American Patriots' name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. There really is not an exact date for when they took that name. It really just came on after the acts by the British. -
The American Revolution
This war lasted until April 11th, 1753. It was a war between the 13 colonies and the British. The war had its origins in the resistance of many Americans to taxes imposed by the British parliament, which they held to be unlawful. -
Second Continental Congress
The date of these meetings last from the summer of 1775. Started soon after the American Revolution began. It was for the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. -
Declaration of Independence
On this day the 13 colonies regarded themselves as 13 self rule states and stated that they declare their independence from the British. This started the new nation of the United
States of America. -
Articles of Confederation
Document signed amongst the 13 original colonies that established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution. -
Shay's rebellion
This lasted until June of 1787. Daniel Shays led a group of rebels (called Shaysites) in rising up first against Massachusetts' courts, and later in marching on the United States' Federal Armory at Springfield in an unsuccessful attempt to seize its weaponry and overthrow the government. This brought Washington out of retirement. -
Philidelphia Convention
This lasted from may 25th-September 1, 1787. It was to present the problems of the 13 collonies and to try to fix them. IT was also to try to revise any problems presented by the Articles of Confederation. The main goal though was to create a new government. -
Connecticut Compromise
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.
