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Jun 1, 1215
Magna Carta
-signed betweem the barons of England and King John
-series of written promised between the Knig and his subjects that he the king would govern England and deal with its people accorded to the customs of feudal law.
-attemp to by the barons to stop a king abusing his power with the people of England suffering.
info - http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/magna_carta.htm
photo - http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1T4TSND_en___US413&q=magna+carta&gs_upl=0l0l4l1060884lllllllllll0&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&t -
Jan 1, 1500
Mercantilism
-the economic doctrine in which government control of foriegn trade ois of paramount importance for ensuring the prosperit and security of the state.
info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercantilism
photo - http://www.google.com/search?q=mercantilism&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-US&oe=utf8&um=1&hl=en&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=1594l10719l0l12719l22l20l2l2l2l1l203l1982l5.9.2l16l0&safe=active&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&safe=active&safe=active&oq=mercantilism&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql= -
Jamestown Colony
-first European settlement in America
-udner the leadership of John Smith, the English built a fort and other buildings designed to protect thier ne colony
info - http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/ushistory/jamestown.htm
photo - http://www.google.com/search?q=jamestown%20colony&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&oe=utf8&safe=active&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi -
House of Burgeses
-the first assembly of elected represetatives of English colonists in North America
-Established by the virginia company
-first meeting in Jamestown, VA july 30
info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Burgesses
photo - http://www.google.com/search?um=1&hl=en&rlz=1T4TSND_en___US413&q=house+of+burgesses&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=345407l355001l0l358948l37l27l0l0l0l3l764l5101l2-3.5.2.0.2l14l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&biw=1249&bih=508&wrapid=tlif132754302755021&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi -
Mayflower Compact
-the first governing document of plymouth colony
-written by pilgrams
-looking to separate themselves from the Anglican Church, 41 signed
info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayflower_Compact
photo - http://www.google.com/search?pq=wiki&hl=en&sugexp=pfwl&cp=6&gs_id=2&xhr=t&q=wikitravel&rlz=1T4TSND_en___US413&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&biw=1249&bih=508&wrapid=tljp132754260290302&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=XLEgT7HDGMPh0QHa4f3nCA#um=1&hl=en&rlz=1T4TSND_en___US -
Plymouth
-first puritan settlement in America
-left England for religious freedom and a better life
info - http://teacher.scholastic.com/researchtools/researchstarters/plymouth/
photo - http://www.google.com/search?q=plymouth%20colony&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&oe=utf8&um=1&hl=en&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=51873l77412l0l80692l27l18l0l5l5l1l171l1108l6.5l13l0&safe=active&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi -
Fundamental Orders of Conecticut
-adopted by the Connecticut Colony counsil
- the orders describe the Connecticust River towns, setting its structure and powers
info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_Orders_of_Connecticut
photo - http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1T4TSND_en___US413&q=fundamental+orders+of+connecticut&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=JmsjT5HVE6rY0QHimoyJCQ&biw=1249&bih=508&sei=MmsjT9quOcXj0QH3ufTJCA -
Culpeper's Rebellion
-popular uprising in the Albermarle section of Carolina to protest British Navigation Acts which denied the coloniest free markets
info - http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Culpeper's+Rebellion
photo - http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1T4TSND_en___US413&q=culpeper%27s+rebellion&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=EbglT_O0D6a50AGPt7TTCA&biw=1249&bih=508&sei=E7glT72UJ6rW0QH9wYjzCA -
Glorious Revolution
-purpose was to over throw the king james II of endgland by an union of english parliamentarians with the Dutch Stadtholder william II
- replaced james II with willaim and mary
info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorious_Revolution
photo - http://www.google.com/search?q=glorious+revolution&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-US&oe=utf8&safe=active&um=1&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&safe=active&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=1594l10719l0l12719l22l20l2l2l2l1l203l1982l5.9.2l16l0&safe=active&oq=gloriou&aq=0&aqi=g10&aql= -
English Bill of rights
-lays down limits on the powers of soverign and sets out the rights of parliament and rules for freedom of speech in parliament, the requirement for regular elections to parliament, and the right to petition the monarch without fear of retribution
info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Bill_of_Rights
photo - http://www.google.com/search?q=english+bill+of+rights&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-US&oe=utf8&um=1&hl=en&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=1594l10719l0l12719l22l20l2l2l2l1l203l1982l5.9.2l16l0&safe=active&tbm=is -
Salem Witch Trials
-series of trials about accused witches that would eventually be hung
-people accused other people bacause they didn't like them or they wanted their land(started by Abigail Williams)
info - http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/salem.htm
photo - http://www.google.com/search?q=salem%20witch%20trials&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&oe=utf8&safe=active&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi -
First Great Awakening
-spiritual renewal that swept the American colonies, particulary New England
-George Whitefield played a big role
-Largely Puritan spirituality of the early 1700s
info - http://www.great-awakening.com/?page_id=12
photo - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sugexp=pfwl&cp=21&gs_id=0&xhr=t&q=first+great+awakening&qscrl=1&nord=1&rlz=1T4TSND_en___US413&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&biw=1249&bih=508&ion=1&wrapid=tljp132772185781900&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=hm0jT5n -
French and Idian war
-started in 1754 and ended in 1763
-war between Britain, France, and North America
-it led into the 7 years war
info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_and_Indian_War
photo - http://www.google.com/search?um=1&hl=en&rlz=1T4TSND_en___US413&q=house+of+burgesses&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=345407l355001l0l358948l37l27l0l0l0l3l764l5101l2-3.5.2.0.2l14l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&biw=1249&bih=508&wrapid=tlif132754302755021&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=RbMgT7CgFeeV0QHS8I3xCA#um=1&hl=en&rlz=1T4TS -
Albany plan of Union
-it is proposed that humble applecation be made for an act of Parliament of Great Britain, by virtue of which one general government maybe formed in America
info - http://www.constitution.org/bcp/albany.htm
photo - http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1T4TSND_en___US413&q=albany+plan+of+union&gs_upl=0l0l2l555845lllllllllll0&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=eygjT4DsDqrn0QHsj7H0CA&biw=1249&bih=508&sei=0SgjT6yMCOnV0QHP7qzgCA -
Proclamation Line of 1763
-ackowledges that Idians sowed the lands on which they were then residing and white settlers in the area were to be removed
info - http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1209.html
photo - http://www.google.com/search?q=ploclamation%20line%20of%201763&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&oe=utf8&safe=active&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi -
Pontiac's Rebellion
-war that was launched in 1763 by Idians
-they were dissatisfied with british postwar policies in the Great Lakes region
info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontiac's_War
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Sugar Act
-was arevenue-raising act passed by the parliament of great britian on april fith.
info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_Act
photo - http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1T4TSND_en___US413&q=sugar+act+of+1764&gs_upl=0l0l1l393927lllllllllll0&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=OyYjT-e9OMfv0gGJzfXaCQ&biw=1249&bih=508&sei=QSYjT5vxJcbj0QHAlvWBCQ -
Stamp Act
- a direct tax imposed by British Parliament -purpose of teh tax was to help pay for troops stationed in North America after teh British victory in the seven years war. photo -- http://www.google.com/search?q=stamp+act&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-US&oe=utf8&safe=active&um=1&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&safe=active&oq=stamp&aq=1&aqi=g10&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=2093l4593l0l7078l12l10l1l0l0l1l219l1095l2.4.2l9l0 info -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamp_Act_1765
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Vriginia resolves
-series of resolutions passed byt the virginia general assembly in responce to the stamp act
info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Resolves
photo - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&qscrl=1&nord=1&rlz=1T4TSND_en___US413&q=virginia+resolves&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&biw=1249&bih=508&ion=1&wrapid=tlif132770204230110&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=KCAjT46SIeP20gHozo3wCA -
Sons of Liberty
-a group of shopkeepers adn artisans who called themselves the Loyal Nine, began preparing for agitation against the Stamp Act
-from 9 people to 2000 people
info - http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/sons.htm
photo - http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1T4TSND_en___US413&q=sons%20of%20liberty&gs_upl=0l0l1l49528lllllllllll0&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=iWMjT-PsLqPi0QH4hsWuCA&biw=1249&bih=508&sei=jWMjT4j2GePX0QGBsv3JCA -
Townshend Act
The purpose was to raise revenue in the colonies to pay the salaries of governors and judges so that they would be independent of colonial rule, and to create a more effective means of enforcing compliance with trade regulation, to punish the province of New York for failing to comply with the 1765 Quartering Act. Parliament has right to tax
info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townshend_Acts
photo - http://www.google.com/search?q=townshend+acts&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-US&oe=utf8&safe=active&um=1& -
Boston Massacre
-British killed 5 men
-a mob of Boston that was tired of parliamentary legislation was throwing hyrassments back and forth them British fired without command.
info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Massacre
photo - http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/images/massacre.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/massacre.htm&usg=__0i3hzFwhy7bueUxDov6Y95Cw5eg=&h=275&w=300&sz=35&hl=en&start=2&zoom=1&tbnid=ZsjHy2M47vgtwM:&tbnh=106&tbnw=11 -
Gaspee Incident
-lead up to the American revolution
-British ship was to regulate unpopular trade regulations
-Abraham Whipple and John Brown took a group and attacked, boarded, and torched the ship.
info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasp%C
photo - http://www.google.com/search?q=gaspee+incident&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-US&oe=utf8&safe=active&um=1&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&safe=active&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=1593l4031l0l6671l9l5l0l0l0l0l188l516l3.2l5l0&safe=active&safe=active&oq=gaspee&aq=1&aqi=g6g-m1g-S3&aql= -
Commities of Correspondence
-formed throughout the colonies as a means of coordinating action against Great Britain
info - http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/coc.htm
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Tea Act
-the purpose was to reduce massive surplus of tea held by the financially troubled british east indians company in its London warehouse
-was to convince the colonists to purchase company tea n which towshned duties were paid, thus implicity agreeing to accept parliament's right to taxation
info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Act
photo - http://www.google.com/search?q=tea+act&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-US&oe=utf8&safe=active&um=1&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&safe=active&oq=tea+act&aq=f&aq -
Boston Tea Party
-direct action by colonists against parliament
-official in boston refused to return 3 ship loadsof taxed tea to britian, so people got on the boat and destroyed the tea into the Boston hardbor
info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party
photo - http://www.google.com/search?q=boston+tea+party&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-US&oe=utf8&safe=active&um=1&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&safe=active&oq=boston+tea+ap&aq=0sS&aqi=g-sS1&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=1594l10719l0l12719l22l20l2l2l2l1l203l1982l5 -
Intolerable Acts
intolerable acts-important development in teh growth of the American revolution -parliament hoped these punitive measures would reverse the trend of colonial resistance to parliamnetary authority that had begun with the 1765 stamp act and Qebec Act info-
photo -http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.usfca.edu/fac_staff/conwell/revolution/first.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.usfca.edu/fac_staff/conwell/revolution/congress.htm&usg=__3bhqml2Rv4MLOkHlmZeYpfB2np0=&h=346&w=494&sz=124&hl=en&start=2&zoom=1&tbnid=o -
1st Continental Congress
-convention of delegates from 12 British North American colonies
-met September 5, 1774in Carpenter's Hall, Philadephia
-called in responce to the intolerable acts
info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Continental_Congress
photo - http://www.google.com/search?um=1&hl=en&rlz=1T4TSND_en___US413&q=house+of+burgesses&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=345407l355001l0l358948l37l27l0l0l0l3l764l5101l2-3.5.2.0.2l14l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&biw=1249&bih=508&wrapid=tlif132754302755021&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&s -
Edenton Tea Party
-earliest organized women's political actions in US history
-Mrs. Penelope Barker organized 51women, and together they formed an alliance supporting the American cause against "taxation without representaion"
info - http://www.northcarolinahistory.org/commentary/50/entry
photo - http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1T4TSND_en___US413&q=edenton%20tea%20party&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=6bklT7CxGKX20gHKhdjtCA&biw=1249&bih=508&sei=D7olT7z9Cufq0QGLvNjoBA -
Mecklenburg Resolves
-a lsit of statements reputed th have been introduced to the Mecklenburg Committee of safety
-proclaimed that all laws originating from the British King are null and viod, and America's government was the only lagitimate government
info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecklenburg_Resolves -
2nd Continental Congress
-convention of delegates from the 13 colonies that met in Philadelphia
-managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards indepedence, adopting the us Declaration of Idependence on july 4, 1776
info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Continental_Congress
photo - http://www.google.com/search?um=1&hl=en&rlz=1T4TSND_en___US413&q=house+of+burgesses&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=345407l355001l0l358948l37l27l0l0l0l3l764l5101l2-3.5.2.0.2l14l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&biw=1249&bih=508&wrapid=tli -
Halifax Resolves
-very first instruction by an colony that authorized its delegates to the Continental Congress to vote for indepence from Great Britian
info - http://www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com/halifax-resolves-april-12-1776.html
photo - http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1T4TSND_en___US413&q=halifax+resolves&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=zb0lT62EEsrG0QHL6s3WCA&biw=1249&bih=508&sei=0r0lT56uBuba0QGqk6nxCA -
Declaration of Independence
-drafted by Thomas Jeferson
-declaration of Independence was the most cherished sybol of liberty
-afficially consider America indepent from Britain
info - www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration.html
photo - http://www.google.com/search?q=about%20declaration%20of%20independence&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&oe=utf8&safe=active&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi -
Article of the Confederation
-served as a bridge between the initial government by the continental congress of the revolutionary period and the federal government prvided under the constitution for the US in effect march 4, 1789
info - http://www.barefootworld.net/aoc1777.html
photo - http://www.google.com/search?um=1&hl=en&rlz=1T4TSND_en___US413&q=house+of+burgesses&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=345407l355001l0l358948l37l27l0l0l0l3l764l5101l2-3.5.2.0.2l14l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&biw=1249&bih=508&wrapid=tlif132754302755021&ie=UTF- -
Treaty of Paris
-formally ended the United States Was of Idependence
-established US boundaries, specified certain fishing rights, allowed creditors of each country to be paid, restored the rights and property of the loyalists, opened up the mississippi to citizens and provided for education of all British forces
info - http://www.earlyamerica.com/early
photo - http://www.google.com/search?um=1&hl=en&rlz=1T4TSND_en___US413&q=house+of+burgesses&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=345407l355001l0l358948l37l27l0l0l0l -
Land Ordinance of 1785
-purpose was to raise maney through the sale of land that was unmapped
-important because if provided easily recignized land descriptions
info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Ordinance_of_1785
photo - http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1T4TSND_en___US413&q=land+ordinance+of+1785&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=F3AjT5U25vTSAb_mlPUI&biw=1249&bih=508&sei=GnAjT9KtHKnL0AGti5z9CQ -
Shay's rebellion
-from 1786 to 1787
-the post-revolutionary clash between New england farmers and merchants that tested the precarious institutions of the New Republic, threatened to plunge teh "disunity states" into a civil war.
info - http://www. calliope.org/shay's/shay's.html
photo - http://www.google.com/search?um=1&hl=en&rlz=1T4TSND_en___US413&q=house+of+burgesses&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=345407l355001l0l358948l37l27l0l0l0l3l764l5101l2-3.5.2.0.2l14l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&biw=1249&bih=508&wrapid=tlif13275430 -
Land Ordinance of 1787
-single most important piece of legistation in the confedration period
-indicated Ohio River, west of the Alleghenies, adn east of the Mississippi River
info - http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h365.html
photo - http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1T4TSND_en___US413&q=land+ordinance+of+1787&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=ZHIjT_EXh-HRAdDT1NQI&biw=1249&bih=508&sei=k3IjT-SEDtDD0AGpoaSCCg -
Constition Convention
-Articles gave congress virtually no power to regulate domestic affaris - no power to tax, no power to regulate commerce
-Congress had to depend on finnacial donations from the states
info-http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/convention1787.html
photo - http://www.google.com/search?q=constitutional%20convention&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&oe=utf8&safe=active&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi -
Federalist/Anti-Federalist papers
-Antifederalist papers are a collection of articles written in opposition to the radification of the 1787 United States Constitution
-Federalist papers are a series of 85 articles that promoted the ratification of teh US Constitution
info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_Papers
photo - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_Papers -
Whiskey Rebellion
-a tax protest in the US in 1789
-protesters used violence and intimidation to prevent federal officials from collecting tax
info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey_Rebellion
photo - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey_Rebellion
