US Government Timeline-SV

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  • Magna Carta
    1215

    Magna Carta

    A document the King of England was forced to sign
  • Settlement at Jamestown

    Settlement at Jamestown

    first permanent English settlement in North America
  • Mayflower Compact

    Mayflower Compact

    an agreement signed by 41 English colonists, Pilgrims, got on the Mayflower before they went to Plymouth, Massachusetts

  • Petition of Right

  • Proclamation Line

    Proclamation Line

    British policy that prohibited Anglo-American colonists from settling on lands west of the Appalachian Mountains
  • The Sugar Act

    The Sugar Act

    tax on imported sugar
  • The Stamp Act

    The Stamp Act

    tax on documents and goods
  • Townshend Acts

    Townshend Acts

    series of British laws passed that imposed taxes on goods imported into the American colonies
  • Tea Act

    Tea Act

    granted the British East India Company a monopoly on the sale of tea in the American colonies

  • First Continental Congress

  • Coercive Act

  • Second Continental Congress

  • Lexington and Concord

  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

    a foundational document of the United States, formally declaring the thirteen American colonies'

  • Common Sense

  • Articles of Confederation

  • Annapolis Meeting

  • Constitutional Convention

  • Ratification