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  • Jan 1, 1215

    Magna Carta

    Magna Carta
    It was developed to protect people from heavy-handed random acts from the king. It included fundemental rights such as trial by jury and process of law so the king cant kill you or take your property for no reason. Orginally the Magna Carta was only intead for the rich.

  • Jamestown Settlement

    Jamestown Settlement
    Jamestown, Virginia was the first permanent settlement in America

  • Mayflower Compact

    Mayflower Compact
    First from of self goverment, the pilgrims and the outsides had to work together to survive in begining of the winter or they were both gonna die.

  • Petition of Rights

    Petition of Rights
    King couldent punish unless lawfull by the way of his peers. The Petition of Rights also gave homeowners a choice to shelter the kings troops. In addition it also stated no man should be "compelled to make or yeild any gift, loan, benevolence, tax, or such like charge, without common consent by act of parliament" -Petition of Rights

  • English Bill of Rights

    English Bill of Rights
    English bill of rights prevented total power by william and amrty and all future monarchs, also included garentees as the right to a fair trial and freedom from excessivve bail, cruel and unusual punishment.

  • Albany Plan of Union

    Albany Plan of Union
    Main purpose of the meeting was to dicuss colonies and the attacks by the french and their native american allies. This meeting held seven colonies. Benjamin Franklin suggested what is now known as the Albany Plan. Raise power to make war and peace with Native Americans

  • Stamp Act of Congress

    Stamp Act of Congress
    This law reguired stamps on all important papers, such as, legal documents, buisness agreements, and newspapers. Many people frowned upon this "Taxation without Representation".

  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress
    First Continental Congrss happening early in the American Revolution, in the Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. All the coloines except Georgia sent delegates. On October 14, the Declaration and Relsoves created the course of the congress as a statement of ideas common to the to all the coloines.

  • Second Continental Congress

    Second Continental Congress
    Second Continental Congress started in the summer almost brefore warfare in the American Revolutionary War. Reconvening of the First Continental Congress. 56 delegates arrived at the first meeting were alse joined in the second meeting.