What Led to This Period 4-5 ajjarapun kuj

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  • Jan 1, 1215

    The Magna Carta is signed

    a) It limited the monarch's power so that even he wasn't above the law.
  • Jan 1, 1400

    1 to 2 million Native Americans live in the ten major cultural regions north of Mexico

    a) Two of these cultural regions are caled Great Plains and Southeast.

  • First permanent English colony established in America

    a) The name of the colony was Jamestown.
    b) The name of the group of merchants was The London Company.

  • African slaves are first brought to the United States, specifically Jamestown, Virginia

    a) They were brought there because they needed workers for their crops, mainly tobacco.

  • Mayflower Compact signed

    a) The purpose of the document was to describe they way they would govern themselves in the new world. http://www.plimoth.org/learn/just-kids/homework-help/mayflower-and-mayflower-compact I learned from the website that they made this compact because they needed order in their society while they were waiting for something called a patent from their king.

  • The first thanksgiving is celebrated by the Pilgrims and the Indians

  • America's first law guaranteeing religious liberty is passed

    a) The law was called Act Concerning Religion.

  • The English take control of the settlement of New Netherland

    a) The colony was renamed New York.

  • Fear of withcraft begins in Salem, Massachusetts

  • Enslaved Africans are living in every colony

  • First Great Awakening begins

    a) There was a feeling that people had lost their religious faith.

  • All 13 British colonies in North America are established

  • King George III is crowned

  • Quartering Act is passed

    a) This law required colonial assemblies to provide British troops with housing.

  • Prime Minister George Grenville proposes the Stamp Act

    a) This law required that colonists bought a stamp for every piece of paper they used. http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/stampact.htm I learnt that the citizens of England were taxed £129,586,789 when the Stamp Act was

  • Townshend Acts are passed

    a) This law required a duty/tax on goods imported from Britan.

  • Parliament passes the Intolerable Acts

    http://www.ushistory.org/us/9g.asp I learned that the intolerable acts were Boston Port Act, Massachusetts Government Act, Administration of Justice Act, and Quebec Act.

  • First Continental Congress

  • Revolutionary War began

  • Paul Revere warns colonists that the British were coming

  • Common Sense is published

    a) The author's name was Thomas Paine.

  • Second Continental Congress meets

  • Delegates sign the Declaration of Independence

  • The British surrender to American troops

    a) France had became an ally to America during the war.

  • Treaty of Paris is signed

    a) It recognized the USA as an independent nation.