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Jun 15, 1215
Magna Carta
This document forced the King to observe and leglaize the rights and liberties of citizens. This idea of a government holding dear liberiteis of citizens was used when forming American government. -
Jamestown Settled
Was settled in 1607, it was the first part of the Virginia Colony to be settled and was the capital for many years. This was the beginning of British colonies in the new world that would go on to become America. -
Mayflower Compact
First governing document for Plymouth Colony. Created ruyles and systems to live by in the New World. -
Petition of Rights
English document that forced the King to recognize the rights of English citizens. Mainly, it disallowed the King to enforce non-Parlimentary taxation. -
English Bill of Rights
Created several rights for England, including the regeular elections for the Parliament and allowed for freedom of speech within the parliament. -
Stamp Act
This Act forced American colonies to pay ridiculous taxes on basically everything. All the items that had a stamp on them by the Brisith government had a tax on them. This was one of the reasons settlers got mad and eventually acted out the revolution. -
Boston Massacre
An uprising in which six Bostonians were shot and killed by members of the British Guard. -
Boston Tea Party
"No Taxation without Representation" This movement occured when the settlers in America felt that the British governent were unfairly taxing them. The revolutionaries snuck onto a British ship and threw all the goods into the harbor. -
Intolerable Acts
Laws passed by the British Parliment that American settlers found intolerable, one of the forebearing reasons that settlers started the Revolution. -
First Continental Congress
A post-Boston Tea Party meeting of twelve of the thirteen colonies to decide what to do about the British tyranny. This became the basis for the eventual revolution for independence from Britain. -
American Revlution Begins
"The shot heard round the world" shot by an unknown gunmen into a group of British soldiers, was the official beginning to the American Revolution. Without which we not be America today. -
Second Continental Congress
This Second Continentalg Congress managed war efforts and moved toward the writing of the Declaration of Independence. -
Philidelphia Convention
Also known as the Constitutional Convention, this convention was ruled over by George Washington and was where the US Constituion was written adn signed into legality. -
Declaration of Independence
The document that officially broke the American colonies away from Great Britain. -
Shay's Rebellion
Armed uprising that took place in Massachusettes after the articles of Confederation were replaced by the Constituion. -
Articles of Confederation
Established the 13 Colonies as seperate but connected soveriegn states. Was the basis for keeping state governements in current times. -
Conneticut Compromise
This Compromise settled that states would have qual representation in the government regardless of size. This is the same way our government runs today, each state getting two senators and a proportional amount of representatives. -
Constitution Convention
55 delegates from all the Colonies met and drafted out the Constituion. This document is now what forms and rules our current day government, -
Albany Plan of Union
Proposed by Benjamin Franklin, this was the first ever plan to unify the thirteen colonies.
