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Jun 15, 1215
Magna Carta
The Magna Carta had 63 clauses that dealt with property rights of barons and limited the farmers property. It was the first document forced onto the King of England, specifically King John of England, by his barons, and was signed in England. Its ideas and legacy can be seen in both the US Constitution and the US Bill of Rights. -
Mayflower Compact
Schoolhouse Rock videoThe purpose of the Mayflower Compact was to prevent dissent amongst Puritians and non-Separatist Pilgrims who had landed at Plymouth a few days earlier. It was the first written framework of government in United States history. -
Petition of Rights
King Charles I signed the Petiton of Rights which granted the people that there was a need of Parliament consent on all of the following: forced billeting of soldiers, imprisonment without cause, and restrictions on the use of martial law. -
English Bill of Rights
King William and Mary signed the English Bill of Rights. It was very much alike to America's Bill of Rights. It allowed the subjects to have freedom of speech, bear arms for defense, and the right to a democratic process which would liming monarch rule.. -
Albany Plan of Union
Benjamin Franklin was the one who proposed this plan for uniting the colonies under a national congress. While this plan was rejected, it set the groundwork for the Articles of Confederation. The "Join or Die" snake cut into eighths each with initials for regions or one of the colonies was created by Benjamin Franklin himself. It became a symbol of unity and resistance against the British. -
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French and Indian War
The British and French were the major players of the conflict. Some of the major battles were Ft. Duquesnes, Ft. Oswego, and Battle of Quebec. The British utamately won this conflict. This event changed our relationship with the british because the British tried to impose new taxes and this led to the American Revolution. -
King George III takes power
He changed the relationship between the British and the colonies as a result of the French and Indian War because he angered the colonists by taxing them for part of the war and told them they had to stop making new settlements. -
Stamp Act
All paper documents were taxed as a result of this act. Colonial leaders isisted it was unconstitutional and mob ciolences started to intimidate stamp collectors into resigning.
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Boston Massacre
Five colonists were killed. The Townshend Act led to this tragedy. -
Boston Tea Party
Sons of Liberty, led by Samuel Adams, protested the monopoly on American tea importation, which was recently granted by Parliament to the East India Company. They seized 342 chests of tea in a midnight raid on tea ships and threw them into the harbor. The British responded with the Coercive Acts as a way to punish the colony in general, Boston in particular, for its resistance. This was a great stride for American colonial resistance. -
Intolerable (Coercive) Acts
This act was passed due to the colonies organized rebellion, the Boston Tea Party, of the Tea Act. The provisions closed Boston to merchant shipping, established formal British military rule, made British officials immune to criminal prosecution in America, and required colonists to quarter British troops. -
First Continental Congress
The governments of the 13 American colonies- except for Georgia- met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to organize colonial resistance to Coercive Acts. Some of the most recognized members were John Adams, George Washington, and John Jay. It issued the Declaration of Rights which said they affirmed their loyalty to the British Crown but did not want to be taxed. -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress reconviened in Philadelphia. The ideas that came about from this meeting was managing war efforts by forming a Continental Army and moving toward independence. Some of the leaders are as followed: Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, and Thomas Jefferson. -
Declaration of Indendence
Was wrote by Thomas Jefferson. It was a formal statement of the colonies' intentions.
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Articles of Confederation
John Hanson was the first president in the Continental Congress during the time that the Articles of Confederation were in the process of ratification. -
The Treaty of Paris
Adams, Franklin, Jay, and Henry Laurens were who represented the United States in its' signing. All territory between the Allegheny Mountains on the east and the Mississippi River on the west became the new boundaries of the US. The British the finally recognized the Declaration of Independence. -
Start of Constitutional Convention
The things that took place at the Annapolis Convention was that the people were determined to overhaul the new american government. The originial purpose was to twerk trade agreements. -
Lexington and Concord
The results of these conflicts was that the colonists showed they could stand up to one of the most powerful armies in the world. The major british generals were Gage and Pitcairn and the american generals were Parker and Barrett. Paul Revere had to alert residence of the news.
