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Magna Carta
Magna Carta also called "Magna Carta Libertatum" was the first document forced onto the king of England by many people , to limit his powers by law and protect there privalages. Who singed this document was King John I of England in Runnymede. This document was basically limited the king's power by no taxation without representation, allowed for fair and non excessive punishment, and a trial by jury. -
Mayflower Compact
This was the first governing document of Plymoth Colony. It was written by the seperatitis also known as the "saints" running from religious persecution by king james of great britian. The purpose of this document was to help the people who aboarded the ship get along and to see themselves as a group of people instead of individuals. -
Petition of rights
Petition of Right is a major english document that set out specific liberties on the subject. The Petition contains restrictions on non-Parliamentary taxation, forced billeting of soldiers, imprisonment without cause, and restricts the use of martial law. Charles I signed this petion granting it's laws -
English Bill of Rights
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This document was a restatement in satutary form of Decleration of Rights , inviting people to become joint soveigners of England . To end the Revolution, William and Mary signed the English Bill of Rights, a new operation between the Parliament and the monarchs, leading to a bigger number of personal liberty in Britain. The reason for this document was to set chair limits on royal power -
French and Indian War
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The French and Indian War was the beginning hostilities between Gr. Britain. England and France building a conflict in America since 1689. There were 9 major battles that happened between this event Battle of fort nessity , Battle of Lake George , Battle of Monongahela, Battle of Oswego, Battle of fort williams and henry, Battle of louisberg, Etc . -
Albany Plan of Union
Bejamin Franklin suggested the Albany Plan of Union. The Albany Plan of Union never happend because of the different colonies, Religion and class etc. The most popular political cartoon that was associated with this suggested meeting was named "Join or Die". -
King George III takes power
He became heir to the throne when his father Frederick, Prince of Wales, died in 1751 from a lung abscess (believed to be caused by a blow on the chest from a cricket ball) before he could succeed his father. George was shy and stubborn but well educated in science and arts. He became King George III in 1760 following the death of his grandfather -
Stamp Act
Stamp act history
Stamp act was a direct tax on the colonies of British America. These printed materials were legal documents, magazines, newspapers and many other types of paper used throughout the colonies .Mulitple things were taxed like Newspaper,playing cards, paper, college diplomas, anything that had to do with paper resources. The colonists were mad that the stamp act forced them to pay a tax on all printed material. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British. It was the tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since Royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts in October 1768 to enforce tax burden imposed by the Townshend Acts. -
Boston Tea Party
Boston colonist were the political group that has organized the boston tea party. -
Intolerable Acts
The government spent immense sums of money on troops and equipment in an attempt to subjugate Massachusetts. British merchants had lost huge sums of money on looted, spoiled, and destroyed goods shipped to the colonies. The Acts were passed in response to the Boston Tea Party. The Acts of 1774 were four acts enforced on the Colonists from King George the Third, to punish them for the Boston Tea Party -
First Continental Congress
The first Continental Congress met in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia. The Continental Congress was called in the American colonies in response to the Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts) enacted by Parliament. Among other things, the act closed the port of Boston. 12 of the 13 colonies sent representatives to Philadelphia. The major people in this document is Ben Franklin, George Washington, Sam Adams, John Adams, -
Lexington and Concord
During April 19, 1775, British soldiers quartered in Boston. Their destinations were lexingotn where they would capture Colonial leaders Sam Adams and John Hancock, then concord where they would seize gunpowder. There were a few casualties for the Colonists then the British went to North Bridge in Concord where there was a skirmish with casualties on both sides. Paul revere rode in rode to concord to warn the colonist "The british are coming , the british are coming!" -
Second Continental Congress
This was a convention of delegates from the thirteen colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun.This was mostly about how the colonist would meet the threats of the british. Benjamin franklin ran the whole situation of the second continental congress. -
Declaration of Independance
The Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the 13 American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire -
Articles of Confederation
This was and agreement among the 13 founding states that establsihed the United States of America as a confederation of sovergins and served as it's first constitution. One of the first presidents that were establsihed after this ducment was John Hanson. -
Start of Constitutional Convention
“A Resolve” to the thirteen colonies: “Adopt such a government as shall, in the opinion of the representatives of the people, best conduce to the safety and happiness of their constituents in particular and America in general.” Between 1776 and 1780 each of the thirteen colonies adopted a republican form of government. What emerged was the most extensive documentation of the powers of government and the rights of the people that the world had ever witnessed.
