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Jun 15, 1215
Magna Carta
Who signed it? King John
Where was it signed? Runnymede
What rights were given to the subjects?The right to be consulted before taxes were raised. The right to jury trial. The right not to have their life, liberty, or property taken without just.
Magna Carta was the first document forced onto 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. -
Mayflower Compact
What was the purpose of this document? Was to ensure that the settlers who came off the mayflower and landed at Plymouth Rock would establish a fair government ruled by majority.
The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by the Separatists, sometimes referred to as the "Saints", fleeing from religious persecution by King James of England. -
Petition of Rights
- contains restrictions on non-Parliamentary taxation, forced billeting of soldiers, imprisonment without cause, and restricts the use of martial law. *Charles I The Petition of Right is a major English constitutional document that sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing. Passed on 7 June 1628, the Petition contains restrictions on non-Parliamentary taxation, forced billeting of soldiers, imprisonment without cause, and martial law.
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English Bill of Rights
Who was involved in the signing? William and Mary
What specific rights were given to the subjects? Declaring the rights and liberties of the subject and settling the succession of the crown. It was a restatement in statutory form of the Declaration of Right presented by the Convention Parliament to William and Mary in March 1689 (or 1688 by Old Style dating), inviting them to become joint sovereigns of England. It lays down limits on the powers of the crown and sets out the rights of Parliam -
Albany Plan of Union
*Benjamin Franklin proposed idea
*No, the plan failed
*Join or Die Picture
In the early 1750s, rivalry between England and France over who would control the North American continent led inexorably to what is known as the French and Indian Wars. This conflict lasted from 1756 to 1763, and left England the dominant power in the area that now comprises the eastern United States and Canada.Aware of the strains that war would put on the colonies, -
French and indian War
*British america, France, and Great Britain.
* Battle of Jumonville Glen, and Fort Necessity.
The war was fought primarily between the colonies of British America and New France, with both sides supported by military units from their parent countries of Great Britain and France, who declared war on each other in 1756. In the same year, the war escalated from a regional affair into a world-wide conflict. -
King George III Takes Power
*Became more hostile towards each other His life and reign, which were longer than any other British monarch before him, were marked by a series of military conflicts involving his kingdoms, much of the rest of Europe, and places farther afield in Africa, the Americas and Asia. -
Stamp Act
*Every Piece of Printed Paper
*Colonialist decided that they would not pay tax to anyone other than their own elected officials.
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed. -
Boston Massacre
*5 people were killed and attempting to enforce unpopular Parliamentary legislation.
British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others. British troops had been stationed in Boston, capital of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, since 1768 in order to protect and support crown-appointed colonial officials attempting to enforce unpopular Parliamentary legislation. Amid ongoing tense relations between the population and the soldiers. -
Boston Tea Party
*Sons of Liberty and responded harshly which would lead to the American Revolution.
political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773. Disguised as American Indians, the demonstrators destroyed an entire shipment of tea, which had been sent by the East India Company, in defiance of the Tea Act of May 10, 1773. They boarded the ships and threw the chests of tea into Boston Harbor, ruining the tea. The British government responded harshly which lead to the revolution. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts was the Patriot name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament, in 1774 relating to Massachusetts after the Boston Tea party. It was meant to punish the colonists for all the money that was wasted when the tea was thrown in the harbor. In Great Britain, these laws were referred to as the Coercive Acts.
*Boston Tea Party
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First Continental Congress
- Peyton Randolph, Henry Middleton, Charles Thomson, Patrick Henry, Joseph Galloway, John Jay, and Edward Rutledge. *boycott British goods
- Carpenters Hall in Philadelphia, Pa The Congress was attended by 56 members appointed by the legislatures of twelve of the Thirteen Colonies, the exception being the Province of Georgia, which was hoping for British assistance with Indian problems on its frontier.The Congress met briefly to consider options, including an economic boycott of British good
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Lexington and Concord
- Capture colonial leaders Sam Adams and John Hancock, then Concord, where they would seize gunpowder. *John Parker,James Barrett,John Buttrick,William Heath,Joseph Warren,Isaac Davis † Francis Smith,John Pitcairn,Hugh Percy. *Was one of the messengers that warned the people that the regulars were coming. Was the first battle/start of the revolutionary war. Colonials win.
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Second Continental Congress
*Philedelphia Pennsylvania
*Independence
*Same as first Continental Congress (For the most part)
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the 13 colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun. It succeeded the First Continental Congress, which met between September 5, 1774 and October 25, 1774, also in Philadelphia. -
Declaration of Independence
statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. Instead they formed a union that would become a new nation—the United States of America. John Adams was a leader in pushing for independence, which was unanimously approved on July 2. -
Articles of Confederation
*George Washington
was an agreement among the 13 founding states that established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution.[1] Its drafting by the Continental Congress began in mid-1776, and an approved version was sent to the states for ratification in late 1777. The formal ratification by all 13 states was completed in early 1781. -
Start of Constitutional Convention
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to address problems in governing the United States of America, which had been operating under the Articles of Confederation following independence from Great Britain. Although the Convention was intended to revise the Articles of Confederation, the intention from the outset of many of its proponents, chief among them James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, was to create a new government rather than fix the existing one.
