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Magna Carta
Great Charter forced upon King John of England in his barons by 1215; Established that the power of the Monarchy was not absolute and guaranteed trial by jury and due process of law to the nobility. Those protections against the absolute power of the king were originally intended for the privileged classes only. -
Jamestown settled
In1607, more than 100 Englishmen landed on a slightly elevated peninsula on the left bank of the " River of Powhatan," Virginia, 40 or 50 miles from its mouth; chose the spot for the capital of a new colony; cleared the trees from the ground ; and began the building of a village, which, in compliment to their King (James I.), they named Jamestown. They also gave his name to the river. -
Mayflower Compact written
The Mayflower Compact is a written agreement composed by a consensus of the new Settlers arriving at New Plymouth in November of 1620. They had traveled across the ocean on the ship Mayflower which was anchored in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The Mayflower Compact was drawn up with fair and equal laws, for the general good of the settlement and with the will of the majority. The Mayflower’s passengers knew that the New World’s earlier settlers failed due to a lac -
Petition of Right
Its document prepared by parliament and signed by king Charles I of England in 1628;challenged the idea of the divine right of king and declared that even the monarch was subject to the laws of the land. Most importantly, it demanded that the king no longer imprison or otherwise punish any person but by the lawful judgment of his peers of the land. -
English Bill Of Rights
It's document written by parliament and agreed on by William and Mary of England in 1689, designed to prevent abuse of power by English monarchs.The Bill Od Right included such guarauntees as the right to a fair trial, as well as freedom from excessive bail and from crual and unusual punishment. Our government and politics today bears the stamps thpse early english ideas. -
Albany Plan of Union
Its plan proposed Benjamin Franklin in 1754 that aimed to unite the 13 colonies for trade, military, and other purposes; the plan was turned down by the colonies and the Crown. Franklin proposed that the creation of an annual congress of represenatative from each of the 13 colonies. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre, also known as the Boston riot, was an incident that led to the deaths of five civilians at the hands of British redcoats on March 5, 1770, the legal aftermath of which helped spark the rebellion in some of the British American colonies, which culminated in the American Revolutionary War. -
Stamp Acts
Britain's harsh tax and tread policies fanned resentment in the colonies. Parliament passed number of laws among them the Stamp Act of 1765. That laws requried the use of tax stamps on all legal documents, on certain business agreement, and on newspapers. time after Parliament repealed the Stamp Act, but frictions still mounted. On March 1770, British troops killed five people, in what came to be knows as the Boston Marsscre. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a direct action by colonists in Boston, a town in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the British government and the monopolistic East India Company that controlled all the tea coming into the colonies. On December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor. The incident remains an iconic event of American history, an -
Intolerable Acts
Prime Minister Lord North, author of the Boston Port Bill, forces the ”Intolerable Acts,” down the throat of America, a vulnerable Indian woman whose arms are restrained by Lord Chief Justice Mansfield, while Lord Sandwich, a notorious womanizer, pins down her feet and peers up her skirt. Behind them, Mother Britannia weeps helplessly. -
First Continental Congress
Parliament passed the another laws and this time ti punisf the colinists for trobles in Boston and elsewhere. Many talented met in Philadelphia on Sep, 5, 1774. After two month the delegeted urged the colonies to refuse all tread with England until the heated taxes and tread regulation were repealed. -
Second Contidnetal Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies. After that warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun. It succeeded the First Continental Congress. The second Congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. Tha battles of Lexinton and Concord had been fought three weeks earlier, on April 19. -
Declaration of Independance
The United States Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were now independent states, and thus no longer a part of the British Empire. The Birthday of United States of America is celebrated July 4th the day when declaration approved. -
Articles of Confederation
Its plan of government adopted by the continental congress after the American Revolution; established “a firm league of friendship” among the states, but allowed few important powers to the central government. Also each and every States kept "Sovereignty, Freedom and Indepedence. -
Constitution Convection
The year was 1787. The place: the State House in Philadelphia, the same location where the Declaration of Independence had been signed 11 years earlier. For four months, 55 delegates from the several states met to frame a Constitution for a federal republic that would last into "remote futurity." This is the story of the delegates to that convention and the framing of the federal Constitution. -
Shay's Rebellion
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Philadelphia Convention
The Philadelphia Convention known as Contitution convention. The purpose of the convention was to address the problems the federal government was having ruling the states and staying fiscally sound under the provisions of the Articles of Confederation, which had been the prevailing code for the government since 1777. What actually occurred at the Philadelphia Convention was the formation of a new plan of government, which was outlined in the newly-drafted U.S. -
American Revolution begins
The American Revolution is more than just the Revolutionary War. There were years of actions taken by the British government that would set the stage for the events that would lead to America's independence. Between the years 1774 and 1791, many events would take place that would lead to the end of British rules in what is now the United States, culminating in the birth of a nation that would one day be one of the dominant world powers. -
Connecticut Compromise
It's a agreement during the constitutional convention that congress should be composed of a Senate, in which States would be represented equally, and House in which representation would be based on a State's population. The agreement satisfied thw smaller States in particular, allowing them to support the creation of a strong central fovernment.
