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Jan 1, 1215
Magna Carta
In 1215 King Was forced to sign a document. This document proposed the idea that the people should hve some power in goverment decisions. The power of the dictator should be limited. It also provided protection aginst unjust goverment. Origanally applied to nobility only. Over the years people gained more liberties. -
Period: Jan 1, 1215 to
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Virginia house of burgness
First Legislature in america, established right after jamestown. -
Mayflower Compact
First example of many plans for self goverment. Forty one men, represented pilgrim families. It was mad inside a small cabin of the mayflower. Leaders later realized they needed more rules. -
English Bill Of Rights
King William and Queen mary swore to govern according to english bill of rights. Bill Of Rights. The bill set clear limits to how the could govern. This applied to american colinists and the people pf england. -
French and Indian War
Threatened Britains hold on the continent. -
Stamp Act
First direct tax to colonists. Tax on any legal document. Even dice and playing cards. Parliament also passed laws that helped to help great britain. -
Boston Tea Party
A group of american colinests jumped on british ships and threw all the tea in the ocean. It was in order to protess high taxes. -
First Continental Cnogress
A plan to boycott english good in the colonies. They also accomplished a second continental congress. -
Lexingtone & Concord
First engement in american revolutionary war. First shots were fired on sunrise in lexington. 500 hundred militia men fought three companies of the kings men and ultimently lost. -
Second Continental Congress
The second congress meating that included 13 colonies to protest great britain. The first congress created this one. They met over the the war. -
Declaration Of Independence
A declaration was signed for the independece of great britain. This marked us separating from great britain. This marked the end of the war. 50 men signed it. -
Articales Of Confederation
13 states agreed on this as the first declaration. Inteaded to creat cooperation between the 13 states. -
Peace Treaty With Great Britain
HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY and the United States of America, desirous of terminating the war which has unhappily subsisted between the two countries, and of restoring, upon principles of perfect reciprocity, peace, friendship, and good understanding between them, have, for that purpose, appointed their respective Plenipotentiaries, -
Shays Rebellion
People took up arms in central massechuses. Named after daniel shays, A veteran of the aerican revolutionary war. -
Constitutional Convetion
The most contentious disputes revolved around the composition and election of the Senate. Whether to divide the executive power between three persons or invest the power into a single president. -
Virginia Plan
States represented themselves. In addition to dealing with legislative representation, the Virginia Plan addressed other issues as well, with many provisions that did not make it into the Constitution that emerged. It called for a national government of three branches. -
3/5 Compromise
The principle that representation in the House of Representatives would be in proportion to the relative state populations was unanimously accepted. However, since slaves could not vote. -
New Jersey Plan
The New Jersey Plan (also widely known as the Small State Plan or the Paterson Plan) was a proposal for the structure of the United States Government presented by William Paterson at the Constitutional Co\nvention on June 15, 1787.[ -
Conneticut Compromise
The Connecticut Compromise (also known as the Great Compromise of 1787 or Sherman's Compromise) was an agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States Constitution. It retained the bicameral legislature as proposed by Roger Sherman, along with proportional representation in the lower house, but required the upper house to be weighted equa -
Bill Of Rights
A collective name for the first 10 amendments. Gave the people more independent freedoms. -
Rhode Island Ratifies
Ratification of the Constitution by the State of Rhode Island. The ratifaction was very long. One of the last of the thirteen states to ratifies. -
Commercial/Slave Trade
The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade took place across the Atlantic Ocean from the 16th through to the 19th centuries. The vast majority of slaves transported to the New World were Africans from the central and western parts of the continent, sold by Africans to European slave traders who then transported them to North and South America.
