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By Josh Mayer
  • 1215

    Magna Carta

    English nobles forced King John to sign a document that regonized their rights
  • Period: to

    Enlightenment

    Europeans challenged the rule of leaders.

  • Colony

    The English colonies adopted the first system of laws.

  • First constitution

    America’s first formal constitution was made.

  • English Bill of Rights

    They signed a document that that set clear monarchs limits.

  • War

    Great Britain won had joined the French and Indian war and won eliminating French rule in America.

  • First Continental Congress

    Delegates from the colonies met in Philadelphia for the first Continental Congress, except Georgia.

  • Revolutionary War.

    Redcoats from Britain clashed with colonial minutemen in Massachusetts.

  • Government

    Representative government was a well established tradition in America by 1776