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Sep 16, 1215
Magna Carta
The Magna Carta was the first document used to govern a country. This document was used to limit the powers of King John. The Magna Carta established for the first time the principle that everyone was subject to the law. -
Jamestown settled
The Jamestown settlement was the first English settlement in the Americas. This was were the British Empire begun. -
Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower Compact was a document that helpped set up a government in Plymouth Colony. The document was signed by 41 male adults in the aboard the Mayflower. -
Petition of Right
The Petition of Right is a major English constitutional document that sets out specific liberties that the King can not infringe. This was sought to be added to the Magna Carta. -
English Bill of Rights
The English Bill of Rights is an act that the Parliment of England passed. The bill created separation of powers, limited the powers of the king and queen, and enhanced the democratic election process. -
Albany Plan of Union
The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government. This was the first proposal to incorparate the colonies as a whole. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp act was an act of the British Parliment to impose taxes on newspapers, legal and commercial documents. This act was one of the acts that led to the act's reapeal in 1766. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was classified as a street fight in the 1700's. In this conflict Patriot mobs threw snowballs, stones, and sticks at British soldiers. In this conflict 5 people lost their lives. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston. It was to protest the taxation of King John. -
First Continental Congress
First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies. They met in the legendary Carpenter's Hall and were elected by the people. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were the laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. These acts were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonist for dumping Tea into the Boston harbor. -
American Revolution begins
On this day the American Revolution begun. In the first battle eight Amerians died and ten others were wounded. Only one British soldier was injured. -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the thirteen colonies after the American Revolution had It was a committee with George Washington as the supreme leader. -
Declaration of Independence
The document was a document that presented charges against King George III, on how he violated America. The men that signed this document were in a sense signing away their lives. -
Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Condederation served as the United States first constitution. It progressed from wartime urgency and led to the Constitutional Convention in 1787. -
Shay's Rebellion
Shay's Rebellion is the name that classified a series of protests. The pople that protest were mostly American farmers against stand and local tax collections. -
Philadelphia Convention
The Philadelphia Convention was a meeting intended to revise the Articles of Confederation. The Articles of Confederation gave the elected congress little to no power. -
Constitional Convection
The Constitutional Convenction was a meeting to discuss the problems of the weak central government that extsted under the Articles of Confederation. The meeting is when the US Constitution was created. -
Connecticut Compromise
The Connecticut Compromise was an agreement that defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have in the US Senate. Larger states wanted the number to be represented by the contribution easch state made to the nation's finances and defenses. The smaller states thought each state should be equal.
