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  • Magna Carta
    Jun 15, 1215

    Magna Carta

    Established the principal that the power of the monarchy was not absolute
  • Mayflower Compact

    Mayflower Compact

    Written frame work of government established in what is now the United States.
  • Petition of Rights

    Petition of Rights

    The petition challenged the devine right of kings.
  • Navigation act

    Navigation act

    Series of laws that restricted the use of ship for trade between Britain and its colonies
  • English Bill of Rights

    English Bill of Rights

    The right and liberty of the subjects and settling the succession.
  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763

    Forbidding all settlement along the appellation mountains.
  • Sugar act

    Sugar act

    An act that raised sugar prices from great Britain. Each merchant was to pay tax of 6 pence per gallon on the importance of foreign molasses
  • Stamp act

    Stamp act

    Payment of a tax to great Britain on a great verity of paper and documents.
  • The Boston Tea Party

    The Boston Tea Party

    An act defined toward the British government.
  • Coercive act

    Coercive act

    Ment to punish Massachusetts colonists for the Boston tea party.
  • First colonist congress

    First colonist congress

    12 Of the 13 colonies meet from September 5th to October 26th in Philadelphia.
  • The first shots fired at Lexington

    The first shots fired at Lexington

    The first shot was fired by Great Britain to start the war
  • Socond continental congress

    Socond continental congress

    The thirteen colonies that meet in the summer of 1775 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania soon after warfare and the revolutionary war had begun
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

    The Declaration of Independence is defined by the formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the thirteen colonies freedom from great Britan.