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  • Jan 1, 1215

    The Magna Carta was signed

    This made the king's power limited. http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/magna_carta/
    10 weeks after King John put his seal on the magna carta to avert civil war, Pope Innocent III invalidated the agreement, and war began.
  • Jan 1, 1400

    2 million Native Americans live in ten major regions of North Mexico

    Two major cultural regions were the Northwest Coast and California.

  • The first permanent English Colony was established in America

    The name of this colony was Jamestown, and it was formed by the London Company.

  • African slaves were brought to Jamestown, Virginia

    They were brought there to solve labor problems. http://www.nps.gov/jame/historyculture/the-royal-african-company-supplying-slaves-to-jamesto
    wn.htm
    The company that supplied African slaves to Jamestown was called the Royal African Company.

  • Mayflower Compact is signed

    Mayflower and Mayflower CompactThe purpose of this document was to seperate from the English Church and form their own congregations. I learned that the Mayflower Compact bound the Pilgrims together

  • The first Thanksgiving was celebrated by the Pilgrims and Indians

  • America's first law guaranteeing religious freedom is passed

  • English Take Control of New Netherland

    It was renamed New York

  • A fear of Witchcraft begins in Salem, Massachussets

  • Enslaved Africans were living in every colony

  • The First Great Awakening Began

    It was started because it was felt that many people had lost their religious fath.

  • All 13 British Colonies were established in North America

  • King George III was crowned

  • Prime Minister George Grenville proposes the Stamp Act

    This law required colonists to buy a stamp for every piece of paper they used.

  • The Quartering Act was passed

    This ordered colonial assembalied to provide British troops with housing and furnishing.

  • The Townshend Acts were passed

    This law required the placement of duty tax on certain goods the colonies imported from Britain.

  • The First Continental Congress took place

  • The Revolutionary War began

  • The Revolutionary War began

  • Paul Revere warned the colonists that the British were coming

  • The Second Continental Congress took place

  • Coomon Sense was published

    It was written by Thomas Paine

  • The delegates signed the Declaration of Independence

  • The British surrender to American troops

    France was an ally of America during the war.

  • The Treaty of Paris was signed

    One effect of this treaty was that Great Britain recognized the United States as and independent nation.