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Period: Jan 3, 1210 to
Dates
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Jun 19, 1215
Magna Carta
Protetion against the arbitrary taking of life, liberty, or property. -
Mayflower Compact
A document that established a "Civil Body Politic" (a temporary government) until one could be more permanently established (ibid.) -
Petition Of Rights
LImited king's power. -
Navigation Act
Required all trade between England and the colonies to be carried in English or colonial vessels. -
The English Bill of Rights
This prohibited a standing army in peacetime, except with the consent of parliament, and required that all parliamentary elections be free. -
Procloamation of 1763
King George III issued a proclamation that forbade colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains. -
Sugar Act
Where as previous colonial taxes had been leveied to support local British officials, the tax on sugar was enacted solely to refill Parliament's empty Treasury. -
Stamp Act
The law required the use of tax stamps on all legal documents, on certain buisness agreements, and on all newspapers. -
Boston Tea Party
A group of men disguised as Native Americans, boarded three tea ships in the Boston Harbor and dumped the cargo into the sea to protest British control of the tea trade. -
First Continental Congress
-Delegates from each of the 13 colonies except for Georgia, met in Philedelphia.
-Organize colonial resistnace to Parliaments coercive Acts. -
The Coercive Acts
Response to the Boston Tea Party. -
Second Continental Congress
Convention of delegates. -
First Shots fired at Lexington/ Concord
Marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britian and thirteen of its colonies on the mainland of British America. -
Decleration of Independence
Document declaring the United States independent from Britian.
