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Jun 15, 1215
Magna Carta
It was the " Great Charter " of English Liberties that gave people their rights. First Document that the King had limits on his people. Required King John of England to proclaim certain liberties. -
Jamestown settled
This was a living history museum operated by the Commonwealth of Virginia. It is located near the site of Jamestown, the first successful English settlement on the mainland of North America -
Mayflower Compact Written
The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by the male passengers of the Mayflower, consisting of separatist Congregationalists who called themselves "Saints", and adventurers and tradesmen, most of whom were referred to by the Separatists as "Strangers" -
Petition of Right
This was a major English constitutional document that sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing. -
English Bill of Rights
This was a Bill that created separation of powers, limited the powers of the king and queen, enhanced the democratic election and bolstered freedom of speech -
Albany Plan of Union
This was a plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies -
Stamp Act
This was an act passed by the British that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents -
Boston Massacre
This was the killing of five colonists by British regulars on March 5, 1770. It was the culmination of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since Royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts -
Boston Tea Party
This was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston. -
Intolerable Acts
This was the American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament after the Boston Tea party -
First Continental Congress
This was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies that met at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
Second Continental Congress
was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that, soon after warfare, declared the American Revolutionary War had begun. -
American Revolution Begins
This was the time when the battle of Lexington occurred, closely followed by the battle of Concord. The shot at Lexington marked the first blood spilled in the war of the American independence -
Declaration of Independence
This was the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer under British rule -
Articles of Confederation
This an agreement among all thirteen original states in the United States of America that served as its first constitution. -
Shay's Rebellion
was an armed uprising in Massachusettes during 1786 and 1787. Revolutionary War veteran Daniel Shays led four thousand rebels (called Shaysites) in rising up against perceived economic injustices and suspension of civil rights (including multiple eviction and foreclosure notices) by Massachusetts, and in a later attempt to capture the United States' national weapons -
Philadelphia Convention
was intended to revise the Articles of Confederation, the intention from the outset of many of its proponents, was to create a new government rather than fix the existing one -
Connecticut Compromise
was an agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Conventiion that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States Constitution
