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Period: Jan 1, 1200 to
Dvelopment
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Jan 10, 1215
Magne Carta
King John was forced into signing the charter because it greatly reduced the power he held as the King of England and allowed for the formation of a powerful parliament. -
Jan 10, 1295
Parliament Begins
Model Parliament of Edward I : knights and burgesses from English shires and towns summoned. First representative parliament. -
House of Burgesses
Representative assembly in colonial Virginia, the first elective governing body in a British colony. It was one division of the legislature established in 1619 by the colonial governor at Jamestown; the other included the governor himself and a council. -
Mayflower compact
The Mayflower Compact (1620) was the first case of colonial self-government in America.
The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was drafted by the pilgrims who crossed the Atlantic aboard the Mayflower. It was signed on November 21, 1620 in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod. -
Glorious Revolution
The Glorious Revolution was when William of Orange took the English throne from James II in 1688. This new power had brought alignment back to the throne. -
English BIll of Rights
the Bill of Rights was passed by Parliament on 16 December 1689.[3] It was a restatement in statutory form of the Declaration of Right presented by the Convention Parliament to William and Mary in March 1689 (or 1688 by Old Style dating), inviting them to become joint sovereigns of England. -
Common Law
Common law was invented in England by three courts — King's Bench, Exchequer and the Court of Common Pleas — to establish a system of law that could supersede the judgments of local courts. Also, in terms of its application to civil law, common law was used to compensate people who suffered wrongful civil acts, known as torts. -
Stamp act
e Stamp Act 1765 (short title Duties in American Colonies Act 1765; 5 George III, c. 12) was a direct tax imposed by the British Parliament specifically on the colonies of British America. The act required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp. -
Intolerable Acts
a series of laws passed by the British in 1774 in an attempt to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from twelve British North American colonies that met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. It was called in response to the passage of the Coercive Acts. -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting on May 10, 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun. It succeeded the First Continental Congress, -
Articles of Confederation
he Articles of Confederation, formally the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, was an agreement among the 13 founding states that legally established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution. -
Shays' Rebillion
An uprising led by a former militia officer, Daniel Shays, which broke out in western Massachusetts in 1786. Shays's followers protested the foreclosures of farms for debt and briefly succeeded in shutting down the court system. -
Great Compromise
an agreement made among the delegates to the Constitutional Convention that the American government would have two houses in Congress: the Senate where each state has two Senators, and the House of Representatives where each state has a number of Representatives based on population. -
Constitutional Convention
took place from May 14 to September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to address problems in governing the United States of America, which had been operating under the Articles of Confederation following independence from Great Britain -
Federalist Paper
Gave the constitution the frame work for the goverment -
Constitution ratified by 2/3 of the states
basically it ratified the 9 of the 13 states which fufilled the parliament rules. -
BIll of Rights
The Bill of Rights protects our rights from the government. It doesn't give government the authority to grant us rights.
