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Jun 15, 1215
Magna Carta
Magna Carta was the first document imposed upon a King of England by a group of his subjects, the feudal barons, in an attempt to limit his powers by law and protect their rights. -
Period: Jun 15, 1215 to
Early American Government
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Jamestown settled
the first successful English settlement on the mainland of North America -
Mayflower Compact Written
The Mayflower Compact was the first agreement for self-government to be created and enforced in America. The Mayflower was a British ship, with 102 passengers, who called themselves Pilgrims, aboard sailed from Plymouth, England. -
Petition of Rights
A statement of civil liberties sent by the English Parliament to Charles I. Refusal by Parliament to finance the king's unpopular foreign policy had caused his government to exact forced loans and to quarter troops in subjects' houses as an economy measure. -
English Bill of Rights
The English Bill of Rights guaranteed certain rights of the citizens of England from the power of the crown. -
Albany Plan of Union
he Albany Plan of Union was a proposal to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies, suggested by Benjamin Franklin, and a a couple of others, at the Albany Congress in July 1754 in Albany, New York. -
Stamp Act
An act of the British Parliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. Colonial opposition led to the act's repeal in 1766 and helped encourage the revolutionary movement against the British Crown. -
Boston Tea Party
a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea ships and dump 342 chests of tea into the harbo because of years of increasing British tea -
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. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. -
First Continental Congress
delegates from each of the 13 colonies except for Georgia which was fighting a Native-American uprising and was dependent on the British for military supplies met in Philadelphia as the First Continental Congress to organize colonial resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts. -
American Revolution begins
The Patriots fought the British in the American Revolutionary War. Formal acts of rebellion against British authority began in when the Patriot Suffolk Resolves effectively abolished the legal government of the Province of Massachusetts Bay and expelled all royal officials. -
Second Continental Congress
convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. -
Declaration of Independence
Announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. -
Articles of Confederation
Establisjed s government dominated by the states, established a national legislature with one house unanimous consent of the states was needed to put the article into operation article was adopted by the Continental Congressnin 1777 did not go into effect until 1781 even after the states ratified the Article of Confederation, many logistical and political probkems plauged the Congress. -
Shay's Rebellion
A series of attacks on courthouse by small band of farmers because farmers suffered from high debt as they tried to start new farms. -
Constitution Convention
A method of amending a stae constitution in which voters may approve the calling of convention of state citizens to propose amendments to the states constitution -
Philadephia Convention
Was held tp address problems in governing the United States of America, which had been operating under the Articles of Confederation following independence from Great Britain. -
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.
