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Jun 15, 1215
Magna Carta
National Archive-Magna Carta Innocent III signed the Magna Carta
It was signed on the bank of the River Thames near Windsor, England.
It was an attempt to limit the King of Englands powers by law and protect the rights of the people -
Mayflower Compact
Mayflower compact history First Governing Document of Plymouth Colony
Attempt to bring a legally binding form of self gov't -
Petition of Rights
English constitutional document that sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing.No person should be forced to provie a loan or tax without an act of parliament. no free individual should be imprisoned or detained unless a cause has been shown. soldiers or member of the royal navy should not be billeted in private houses without free consent of owner.
Charles I -
English Bill of Rights
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Albany Plan of Union
The Colonies first attempt to form a union under one government.
Ben Franklin suggested this plan
It never happened
Join or die -
French and Indian War
British America and New France-both sides supported by parent counties (Great Britain and France)
Battle of Fort Necessity, Battle of River Monogahela, Battle of Lake George.
French won
The Cost of the war led the brits to start taxing the American Colonies straining the relationship between the two -
King George III takes power
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Stamp Act
Stamp Act allowed brits to directly tax colonists. Also required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in london, carrying an embossed revenue stamp.
Ship's papers, Legal Documents, licenses, newspapers, publications.
The Colonial leaders rose and rebelled against the british -
Boston Massacre
British open fired on civilians
5 killed
Townshend Acts and Acts of Taxation -
Boston Tea Party
Boston Tea Party A political protest by the Son's of Liberty in Boston
The colonist did not like the taxation of the East India Company (controlled tea imports)
Destroyed tea by throwing it into the harbor.
The British responded to the protest by making the Intolerable Acts of 1774 which closed the Boston Ports and destroyed the Massachusetts government, granting a monopoly on the sale of tea to the British East India Company. -
Intolerable Acts
Response to the boston tea party, and resistance to parliamentary authority that began with the stamp act
British closed all of oston's Ports untill the colonist's payed for the tea that destroyed during the boston tea party. The Brits restricted colonist to have town/government meetings. Brits allowed to house troops where ever/when ever. -
First Continental Congress
a convention of delegates from twelve colonies. It was called in response to the passage of the Intolerable Acts by the British Parliament.
The Stamp Act Congress and Second Continental Congress
A declaration that stated the rights of the Colonists and the halt of trade with britain
Carpenters Hall Phila, PA -
Second Continental Congress
Convention of delegates from the 13 colonies.
Phila, Pa after Am. Revolutionary War started.
Declared America's independence from England.
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Ben Franklin -
Lexington and Concord
First military battles of Am. Rev. War.
The British won
Colonel Smith, Major Pitcairne, Lord Percy, Paul Revere, William Dawes, Barrett Buttrick, and Robinson.
Paul Revere and other men on horse back sounded the alarm and colonial militiamen responded -
Declaration of Independence
A statement adopted by the continental congress, announced that the 13 American collonies regarded themselves as independent states.
Thomas Jefferson-author
Part 1 - "Preamble" "it is right and necessary for us to separate from Britain in order to preserve our God-given rights, and we are now going to tell the whole world the things that have happened that justify it"
Part 2 - List of grievances
Part 3 - (in consequence of all these grievances ['we therefore...."]) -
Articles of Confederation
an Agreement among the 13 founding states that established the USA as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution.
John Hanson would be first president
Failures: raising and maintaining a military, Commerce between the states, foreign relations, money, and raising taxes.
Success: The Land Ordinance of 1785 and Northwest Ordinance created territorial government, set up protocols for the admission of new states, the division of land into useful units -
The Treaty of Paris
Ended American Revolutionary war
Greatlakes to Miss. River to florida
Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, Henry Laurens, and John Adams.
USA was not under control of england -
Start of Constitutional Convention
Took place from May 25th to sept 17 1787
Annapolis-rewrite the articles of Confederation
in phila, PA to address problems in governing the US under the articles of confederation
