Major Events for Early American Government

  • Magna Charta
    Jun 27, 1215

    Magna Charta

    First document forced on to a king of England by a group of his colonies
  • Jamestown Settled

    Jamestown Settled

  • Mayflower Compact Written

    Mayflower Compact Written

    first agreement for self-government to be created and enforced in America
  • Petition of Rights

    Petition of Rights

    A major English constitutional document that sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from
  • English Bill of Rights

    English Bill of Rights

    an act of the parliament of England passed on December 16
  • Albany Plan of Union

    Albany Plan of Union

  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act

    Imposed a direct tax by the British paliament spcifiacally on the colonies be produced on stamped paper
  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre

    British Army soldiers killed five male civillians and injured six others
  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

    Political protest by the sons of Liberty in Boston
  • Intolerable Acts

    Intolerable Acts

    A series of punitive laws passed by the Bristish parliament
  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress

    A Convention of delagates from 12 colonies that at Carpenters Hall in Philadelphia Pennsylvania
  • American Revolution begins

    American Revolution begins

    5 AM, 700 british troops march into Lexington to find 77 armed minute men under Captin John Parker
  • Second Continental Congress

    Second Continental Congress

    A convention of delagates form the 13 colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

    a statement adopted by the continental congress which announced that the 13 colonies are no longer a part of the British Empire
  • Articles of Confederation

    Articles of Confederation

    An agreement among 13 founding states that established the US as a confederation of soveriegn states
  • Philadelphia Convention

    Philadelphia Convention

    Meeting held to address problems in governing the United States
  • Shay's Rebellion

    Shay's Rebellion

    an armed uprising that took place in central and western massachusettes
  • Constitution Convection

    Constitution Convection

    also known as Philadeohia
  • Connecticut Compromise

    Connecticut Compromise

    an agreement that large and small states reached during the constitutional convention that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would

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