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Some nobles forced King John to sign this document which gave citizens certain rights and it limited the monarch. It also created Parliament.
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Economic theory that the success of a nation depends on the supply of goods and amount of international trade is unchanged. Also suggests the economy be regulated by supply and demand as well as commericial interests.
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It was a first permanent settlement in Virginia. It was built on the banks of the James river. Even today it is still a great tourist attraction.
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First representative government in the United States. It met once every year. The first order of business was to set a minimum price for the sale of tabacco.
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Second permanent English settlement in America. Found by the settlers including a religious group called pilgrims.
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First governing document of the plymouth colony. It was drawn up to establish a temporary government primarliy to prevent some from leaving the colony and failing to provide their labor along with others. All 41 male members signed this docoument.
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It was known to be the first written constition. It was written by a group of puritan pilgrims that were persecuted because of their religion and desired to establish their own reforms.
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Uprising againist proprietary rule in Northern Carolina which was caused by the people inforcing the British Navigation laws.
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It was a plan to overthrow King James II of england. It was lead by a group of English Parliamentarians to revolt againist the King by his unreasonable demands. It was also known as the Revolution of 1688.
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Created by the Parliament of England that placed William and Mary on the throne. It also allowed subjects to petition the monarch, and made it a replacement of the crown to seek peoples consent before passing certain laws.
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Famous trial back in 1692 where 19 people were accused of witchcraft. The trials ended in May 1693.
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Period of time where religion became increasingly prevalent within the British and North America societes.
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Wawr in America in which France and its Indian allies opposed England. French believed that the Englishmen were intruding on there land, because land disputes the war started. It was later ended by the Treaty of Paris.
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Proposed by Ben Franklin which was an early attempt of forming the colonies under one government during the french and indian war. It was not passed because legislators did not want to give up control of their power.
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It was a battle fought between a group of indians and the british. It was caused bu how the British treated the indians after the seven years war. The British won this battle.
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Issued by King George III which was to organize Great Britians new North American empire and to stablize relations between Native North American torugh regulation of trade, settlement, and land purhcases.
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Passed by Parliament that reduced taxes on sugar and molasses. In turn, it helped lower the rates that were affecting the British West Indies.
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A law passed by the British Parliament introducing a tax on legal documents, contracts, licenses, publications, in North America colonys, It was caused by the Bristish debt from the seven years war. It was repealed in 1766.
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Series of revolutions passed by the virginia general assembly in respoonse of the stamp act. Defined as one of the first acts of open revolution to British law.
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It was a secret underground organization of rebels which opposed british rule and supported the move for American Independence.
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Law that taxed glass, oil, lead, paper and tea. It was deisgned to collect revenue from the colonists to pay the salaries of governors and judges.
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Incident where a British troop killed 5 colonists. It was caused by the British troops coming in trying to enforce the kings rule: the citizens got tired of it and started to riot at the soldiers which they aimed and fired on the people.
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A ship named the HMS gaspee ran into shallow water which a group of people led by Arbaham Whipple and John Brown attacked, boarded, looted and torched the ship. It was also known as the Gaspee Affair.
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Organization that passed information colony to colony about how england was violating colonists right. It was usually spread by courers on horse back.
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Act which taxed tea that was imported, three pence per pound which was less than previous taces. It was made to bring assistance to the East india company which had burdened fiancially with eighteen million pounds of unsold tea.
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After officials refused to return three hundred shiploads of taxed tea to Britian, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into the harbor. Some of the colonists dressed as Mohawk indians.
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Acts that King George put onto the 13 colonies. He punished them for dumping tean into the harbor at the Boston Tea party. It made it so that every citizen in Boston to be watched over by a british soldier.
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It was a convention of delgates from twelve of the thirteen colonies to discuss the intolerable acts passed by British Parliament. They also wrote a letter to the king asking for independence.
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It was a political protest in North Carolina that was lead by women boycotting againist the tea act. 51 women led by Penelop Barker.
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Another convention to discuss the colonial war effort and more toward independence. The congress acted as the "National" government of the colonies.
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Document which was signed in North Carolina that gained independence from Britian but evidence of this has yet to be found. Also known as the Mecklenburg Declaration.
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Document written by North Carolina colonists saying all the colonies declare themselves independent from Britian.
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Legal document that seperated US from British rule as independent colonies. Guarantted our rights and freedoms of America.
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The first system of government established by the United States after the colonies achieved independence. It created a weak central government and left authority to the states. It also created the union of the states.
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The treaty brought an end to the American Revolution and recognized the United States as a soveriegn nation. It was signed by the British and U.S. representatives.
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This document made that the western land could be sold as public land. Used a township to section the pieces of land.
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Was a protest by farmers againist the many foreclosures of farms during the late 1700s in Massachusetts. They wanted the government to print more money and to stop putting farmers in jail for not being able to pay their debt.
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It was a meeting that took place in Philadelphia. Delegates from the various states met to create a plan for a structured government which came to be completed in September 1787.
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Document that stated that the land north of the Ohio river and east of the Mississippi could be settled. Also said that those states would become part of the United states.
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Papers where the federalists wrote that defended the constitution and resured americans that the states wouldn't try to overthrow it. The anti federlist papers resented the making of the constitution.
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It was a tax on whiskey that was a plan of Alexander Hamilton to pay the off the national debt. Then farmers resented the tax and acted out by attacking excise agents and a marshall.
