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Aug 15, 1215
Magna Carta
limited the kings power over the people -
Mayflower Compact
prior to its landing at Plymouth, Massachusetts. It was the first framework of government written and enacted in the territory that is now the United States of America -
Petition of Right
a statement of civil liberties sent by the English Parliament to Charles I . Refusal by Parliament to finance the king's unpopular foreign policy had caused his government to exact forced loans and to quarter troops in subjects' houses as an economy measure -
Jamestown settled
In 1607, 104 English men and boys arrived in North America to start a settlement. On May 13 they picked Jamestown, Virginia for their settlement, which was named after their King, James I -
English Bill of Rights
The English Bill of Rights created a constitutional monarchy in England, meaning the king or queen acts as head of state but his or her powers are limited by law. Under this system, the monarchy couldn't rule without the consent of Parliament, and the people were given individual rights. -
Albany Plan of Union
representatives from seven of the British North American colonies created the plan it was never used but did help unite the 13 colonies -
Stamp Act
The new tax required all legal documents including commercial contracts, newspapers, wills, marriage licenses, diplomas, pamphlets, and playing cards in the American colonies to carry a tax stamp. The Stamp Act was the first direct tax used by the British government to collect revenues from the colonies. -
Boston Massacre
helped to unite the colonies against Britain. What started as a minor fight became a turning point in the beginnings of the American Revolution -
Boston Tea Party
it was a raid that took place in the Boston Harbor which American colonists had dumped shiploads of tea into the water to protest a British tax on tea it also helped generate more tension between the American and brutish colonists -
Intolerable Acts
The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British Government -
First Continental Congress
Convened in response to the Intolerable Acts passed by the British Parliament the First Continental Congress sought to help repair the frayed relationship between the British government and its American colonies while also asserting the rights of colonists -
American Revolution begins
it signaled the start of the American Revolution and led to the creation of a new nation -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Congress functioned as a de facto national government at the outset of the Revolutionary War by raising armies, directing strategy, appointing diplomats, and writing treatises such as the Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms and the Olive Branch Petition -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is an important part of American democracy because first it contains the ideals or goals of our nation. Second it contains the complaints of the colonists against the British king -
Shay’s Rebellion
Shays' Rebellion was an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts in response to a debt crisis among the citizenry and in opposition to the state government's increased efforts to collect taxes both on individuals and their trades; the fight took place mostly in and around Springfield during 1786 and 1787 -
Connecticut Compromise
Their so-called Great Compromise (or Connecticut Compromise in honor of its architects, Connecticut delegates Roger Sherman and Oliver Ells worth) provided a dual system of congressional representation -
Philadelphia Convention
The point of the event was decide how America was going to be governed. Although the Convention had been officially called to revise the existing Articles of Confederation
