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Jun 15, 1215
Magna Carta
Description: The Magna Carta was meant to prevent the king from abusing his power while the people suffer.
A) King John and the feudal barons signed the Magna Carta.
B) It was signed in Runnymede near Windsor Castle. -
Mayflower Compact
Description: The Mayflower Compact was the agreement that the pilgrims signed when they first landed in the new world.
A) It was the laws of the new world until a government was put in place. -
Petition of Rights
Description: Declaration of rights and liberties of the people assented by Charles I in the beginning of his reign.
A) 1)that no freeman should be forced to pay any tax, loan, or benevolence, unless in accordance with an act of parliament;
2)that no freeman should be imprisoned contrary to the laws of the land;
3)that soldiers and sailors should not be billeted on private persons;
4)commissions to punish soldiers and sailors by martial law should be abolished.
B) Charles I signed it. -
English Bill of Rights
Description: An act declaring rights and liberties to the people, a British constitution.
A) William and Mary signed it but parliment wrote it.
B)
-freedom from royal interference with the law
-freedom to elect members of parliament without royal intervention
-freedom of speech -
Albany Plan of Union
Description: Plan to unite the British American colonies under a more central government.
A) Ben Franklin suggested this paln for union.
B) It never happened.
C) The snake cut up witht the different colonies on the pieces saying join or die. -
King George III takes power
Description: After the French and Indian war, King George III took power.
A) He changed the relationship in a negaative way, he thought Americans were still under British rule but Americans wanted more freedoms. -
French and Indian War
Description : The French and Indian war was a war between Frace and Great Britain known as the Seven Years War (1754-63)
A) France and Great Britain with their Indian allies.
B) Battle of Little Bighorn, Battle of Monogahela, Battle of Fort Ticonderoga and many more
C) British
D) The British started taxing us to help pay for the damage of the war and that created tension.
D) It lead to the American Revolution -
Stamp Act
Description: The Stamp Act was used to collect money to help pay for the troops stationed along the Appalachian Mountains.
A) All paper products, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and playing cards.
B) They looked for ways to resolve the Stamp Act. -
Boston Massacre
Description: Colonists threw snowballs at British soldiers so they opened fire.
A) Five colonists were killed.
B) The Townshend Acts. -
Boston Tea Party
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Description: Groups of people dressed as Indians went to the harbor and dumped over 342 chests of tea imported from England into the Boston Harbor.
A) They were the Massachusetts Patriots called the Sons of Liberty lead by Samuel Adams.
B) Parliment set the Coercive Acts into place in order to punish the colonies but mostly Boston. -
Intolerable Acts
Description: The Intolerable Acts were also called the Coercive Acts/
A) The Boston Tea Party
B) Boston Port Act, Massachusetts Government Act, Administration of Justice Act, and the Quebec Act. -
First Continental Congress
Description: They met in Carpenter's Hall, Philadelphia, where all the colonies except Georgia to meet.
A) George Washington, Richard Henry Lee, Patrick Henry, Edmund Pendleton, Benjamin Harrison, Richard Bland, and Peyton Randolph
B) A plan of union of Grat Britian and the colonies
C) Carpenter's Hall, Philadelphia -
Lexington and Concord
Description: General Gage had a plan to attack Lexington and Cocord but his plans got leaked.
A) The British suffered many casualties (250) and the Americans only a few (90).
B) General Gage, Colonel Smith, Major Pitcairne and Lord Percy lead the British troops.Barrett, Buttrick, Robinson and many others lead American trrops.
C) He and other men rode horseback all through the town warning people about the redcoats. -
Second Continental Congress
Description: They met after the Battle of Lexington and Concord and dicussed many issues occuring at the time.
A) State House, Philadelphia
B) Appointed Washington chief of the confederate army and they drafted the Declaration of Independence
C) George Washington, John Hancock, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin -
Declaration of Independence
Description: Written by Thomas Jefferson and adopted by the Second Continental Congress, states the reasons the colonies wanted independence. It also states the list of freedoms they wished to have aquired. -
Articles of Confederation
Description: The first constitution of the United States.
A) Congress and its delegates at the time had the most power but it was George Washington. -
Start of Constitutional Convention
Description: A combination of all the plans that were written and the start of the American Constitution.
