What Led to This Period 0-1 gujinglen

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  • Jan 1, 1215

    Tha Magna Carta signed

    The signing of the document lowered the monarchs power and gave more power to barons.
  • Jan 1, 1400

    1-2 million Native Americans lived in ten major cultural regions north of Mexico

    Two of these major cultural regions are the Northwest Coast and California.

  • First permanent English colony established in America

    The name of this colony was Virginia and it was formed by a group of merchants called the London Company.

  • Mayflower Compact signed

    The purpose of this document was to describe the way that pilgrims would govern themselves

  • The first thanksgiving celebrated by the Pilgrims and the Indians

  • America's first law guaranteering religious liberty passed

    The law was called Act Concerning Religion.

  • African Slaves first brought to the US

    The Africans were first brought to farm.

  • The English take control of the settlement of New Netherland

    The colony was renamed New York.

  • A fear of witchcraft began in Salem, Massachusetts

  • The year that enslaved Africans were living in every colony

  • The First Great Awakening Began

    The movement was a feeling that people had lost religious faith.

  • All 13 British colonies in N. America were established

  • King George III was crowned

  • Prime Minister George Grenville propose the Stamp Act

    The law required that colonists must buy a stamp for every piece of paper used.

  • The Quartering Act passed

    This law required that colonists must provide British troops with housing.

  • Townshend Acts passed

    This law required taxes on goods imported from England.

  • The Intolerable Acts passed

    The acts included the Boston Port Act, the Administration of Justice, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Quebec Act, and the Quartering Act.

  • The First Continental Congress

    Out of the 13 colonies, Georgia was the only colony that didn't send delegates to the First Continental Congress.

  • Paul Revere's warns the colonists that the British were coming

    Paul Revere's job was to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that the British were going to arrest them. He also "alarmed" the countryside that the redcoats were coming.

  • The Revolutionary War Began

  • The Second Continental Congress

  • Common Sense was published

    The author of Common Sense was Thomas Paine.

  • The Declaration of Independance was signed

  • The British surrender to American troops

    France was an ally of America during the Revolutionary War.

  • The Treaty of Paris signed

    One effect of the treaty was that Great Britian recognized the US as an independant nation.