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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.
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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.
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First governing document for Plymouth Colony. Created ruyles and systems to live by in the New World.
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English document that forced the King to recognize the rights of English citizens. Mainly, it disallowed the King to enforce non-Parlimentary taxation.
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Created several rights for England, including the regeular elections for the Parliament and allowed for freedom of speech within the parliament.
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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.
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An uprising in which six Bostonians were shot and killed by members of the British Guard.
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"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.
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Laws passed by the British Parliment that American settlers found intolerable, one of the forebearing reasons that settlers started the Revolution.
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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.
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"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.
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This Second Continentalg Congress managed war efforts and moved toward the writing of the Declaration of Independence.
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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.
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The document that officially broke the American colonies away from Great Britain.
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Armed uprising that took place in Massachusettes after the articles of Confederation were replaced by the Constituion.
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Established the 13 Colonies as seperate but connected soveriegn states. Was the basis for keeping state governements in current times.
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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.
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55 delegates from all the Colonies met and drafted out the Constituion. This document is now what forms and rules our current day government,
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Proposed by Benjamin Franklin, this was the first ever plan to unify the thirteen colonies.
