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Jun 15, 1215
Magna Carta/Great Charter!
King John soveren of England from 1199 to 1216. 1215 nobels rebel.
1- Protect nobel authority.
2- Rights to landholders.
3- Equal treatment under the law.
4- Trial by your peers.
5- Limited the power of the monarch-no one above the law.
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Info: Class notes.
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Jamestown Colony!
The Virginia Company explorers landed on Jamestown Island to establish the Virginia English colony.
Information:
http://www.preservationvirginia.org/rediscovery/page.php?page_id=
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House of Burgess(est.)
The first legislature anywhere in the English colonies. America was in Virginia.
Information: Class Notes.
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Mayflower Compact!
to establish a civil government based upon a majoritarian model and to proclaim the settlers' allegiance to the king.
Information: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_was_the_Mayflower_Compact
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Plymouth Colony!
Americas first permanent Puritan settlement, established by English Separatist Puritans.
Information: http://teacher.scholastic.com/researchtools/researchstarters/plymouth/
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GloriousnRevolution!
Occured in Europe. 27 April 1688 - 26 Dec. 1689. -
Salem Witch Trials!
First Witch Trial. They pretty much went out and accused people of being witches and killed them.
Information: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/brief-salem.html
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Tea Act!
Designed to pop up the East India Company which was floundering financially and burdned with 18 million pounds of unsold tea.
Information: http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/teaact.htm
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French and Indian War!
7 Year war, called it that in the colonies. 1754 - 1761. Ended in 1761 in the coloies. -
Albany Plan of Union!
A plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government.
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Proclamation Line of 1763.
No settlement west of the Appilachains. to hold relationship with the indians.
Information: Class Notes. -
Sugar/Revenue Act of 1764!
indirect tax.
Information: Class Notes. -
Stamp Act!
Passed by the British. Pay a tax on every single sheet of paper they used. Tax used to help pay for the costs of defending & protecting the American Frotier!
Information: http://www.history.org/history/teaching/tchcrsta.cfm
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Townsend Act!
Taxes paid on glass, paint, oil, tea & lead. In Boston.
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Boston Massacre!
The killing of five colonists by British regulars.
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Committees of Correspodence!
Not sure the day. organized to pass news from colony to colony about how england was violating colonists rights.
Information: Class Notes.
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Boston Tea Party!
That the tea East India Company shipped arrived in the Harbor.
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Intolerable Act!
Over different time periods. Govenment spent lots of money on troops and equipment.
Information: http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/intolerable.htm
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Edeton Tea Party!
Denounced the unjust imposition of taxes and prosecutions and condemed the Boston Port Act.
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Second Sontinetal Congress!
Declares independence. -
Halifax Resolves!
Adopted by the fourth provicial congress of the provience of the NC resolution from the was at moores creek bridge.
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Deleration of Independence!
1- Preamible.
2- List of grevences.
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Articles of Confederation!
Established a national legislature, or congress, which was given certian powers.
Information: Class notes.
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First Continental Congress!
September 15, 1774. 12 colonies send delegates- except Georfia. Pressure- cut trade with England.
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Treaty of Paris 1783!
triumph for England over her rivals in the race for worldwide empire.
Information: http://www.thenagain.info/webchron/usa/TreatyParis.html
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Land Ordinance of 1785!
laid foundations of Americn land policy.
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Shays Rebellion!
not sure of the day. Farmers went into debt. Went into debt because of taxes because war debts. -
Land Ordinance of 1787!
Created Northwest territories.
Information: http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0836802.html Picture: coursehero.com -
Constitutional Convevtion!
Made because the United States was unable to deal with the challanges of leading a large country.
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English Bill of Rights!
Law for a nation of free citizens with inalienable rights.
Information: http://www.thegloriousrevolution.org/docs/english%20bill%20of%20rights.htm
