Awest6Andrew Shepherd

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  • Feb 1, 1215

    Magna Carta

    Magna Carta
    The Magan Carta shaped the rights of teh peole for 400 years in England.

  • Mayflower Compact

    Mayflower Compact
    The first governing document of the pilgrims and colonists. It ensured that Separatist religious groups could practice freely.

  • Petition of Rights

    Petition of Rights
    The Petition of Rights updated the 400 year old Magna Carta that was originally the rights for the people in England.

  • Navigation Act

    Navigation Act
    This act restriced trade in the colonies and only to Great Britain and not other countries.

  • English Bill of Rights

    English Bill of Rights
    The English Bill of Rights is what the American Bill of Rights is based on and improved on.

  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763
    This essentially organized the French and English colonies to ensure stable relations with Native Americans and benefits for Britain.

  • Sugar Act

    Sugar Act
    The sugar Act taxed basically any sugar product especialy molassas. Again, the colonists hated this and fed the fire for revolution.

  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act
    This act taxed all stamps needed for legal documents and mail. This only angered most of the colonists.

  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    The colonists obljected teh Tea Act for a veriety of reasons mainly becasue they were being taxed without representation. A group of colonists dumped a tea shipment into the Boston harbor to vent their anger.

  • Coercive Acts

    Coercive Acts
    The Intolerable Acts as they are sometimes known, triggered outrage in the colonies and fed the fire for a revolution.

  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress
    This was the response to the Coercive Acts or the Intolerable acts.

  • First Shots Fired at Lexington and Concord

    First Shots Fired at Lexington and Concord
    The First mark of teh revolution in New England. This was the first and definitly not the last armed conflict with Great Britain. Turning Point in American History

  • Second Continental Congress

    Second Continental Congress
    The congress was starting to discuss war strategies for the Revolution which had barely begun. They were also beginning to conjure documents for the Independance of America.

  • Declaration of Independance

    Declaration of Independance
    The huge turning point in American history. The colonists sign a document explaining that they will no longer be under the rule of Britain.