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Sep 20, 1215
Magna Carta
a.) The Barons of King John of England
b.)England
c.) That no freeman will be improsened or punished without first going throgh the proper legal system -
Mayflower Compact
a.) To ensure the settlers who come off the Mayflower would establish a fair government ruled by majority -
Petition of Rights
a.) King is prohibited from non-parliamentary taxation, forced billeting of soldiers,imprisionment with out cause, restricts the use of martial law
b.) King Charles 1 -
English Bill of Rights
a.) William and Mary
b.) No royal interference with the law, no taxation by royal Prerogative, etc. -
Albany Plan of Union
a.) Benjamin Franklin
b.) No, it failed
c.) Join or die(the snake one) - Benjamin Franklin -
French and Indian war ( 7 year war "Beginning" )
a) George Washington, Gen. Edward Braddock ect.
b) Battle of Fort Necessity, Battle of Fort Ticonderoga ect.
c) British -
King George III takes power
a)Thought the colonists should pay for all the damage from the Boston Tea Party, which led to taxing. -
Stamp Act
a) On every piece of printed paper they used exiship paper, legal documents , licence , newspapers, other publications, playing cards. -
Boston Massacre
a) 5
b) the Townshend Acts -
Boston Tea Party
a)Massachusetts Patriots
b) Intolerable Acts -
First Continental Congress
a) Patrick Henery George, George Wasington, John Adams
b) A plan of Union of Great Britain & the Colonies, The Suffolk Resolves, Declaration Of Rights, Coninental Assosiation -
Intolerable Act
a) Boston Tea Party
b)For king George III to punish the colonistsfor the Boston Tea Party, closed all ports until they payed for the tea they destroyed. -
Lexington And Concord
a) Started The shooting War between the British and the American Patriots
b)British-Francis Smith: Colonist-John Parker, colonel James
c) They warned the colonist that the " Red Coats " were coming -
Second Continental Congress
a) Philidelphia, Pennsylvania
b)The idea of the Declaration of independence was concieved
c) Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington -
Declaration of Independence
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Articles Of Confederation
a) John Hanson -
Treaty Of Paris
a) Benjamin Franklin, John Jay
b)
c) Declerarion Of Independence -
Start of Constitutional Convention
a) Drew the Constitution of the United States
b) To revise the Articles of confederation
