History of Our Democracy

By lexi.tomlinson
  • Period: Oct 28, 1100 to

    Our English Heritage

  • Oct 28, 1150

    England 1100s-1200s

    Monarchs Kings/queens
    noble families gained power via land
  • Jan 1, 1215

    Manga Carta

    -limited power of monarch
    - everyone would get equal treatment under the law
  • Jan 1, 1300

    Next King

    parliament created

  • House of Burgesses

    1st representative assembly/legislature in English colonies

  • Mayflower Compact

    established direct democracy
  • Period: to

    Men who influenced government structure

    John Locke
    Jean jacques rassea
    baron de Montesquieu

  • Fundamental Order of Conmecticut

  • Massachusetts Body of Liberties

  • Pennsylvania Frame of Governemnt

  • Glorious Revolution

  • English Bill of Rights

  • Enlightenment

  • 13 English Conlomies Established

  • Colonists feel their rights aren't renued

  • Pennsylvania Charter of Privelges

  • Albany Plan of Union

  • Proclamation of 1763

  • Stamp Act

  • Quartering Act

  • Stamp Act Repealed

  • Townsend acts

  • Boston Massacre

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Philadelphia- First Continetal Congress

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • 2nd continental congress

  • Thomas Paine wrote "Common Sense"

  • Declaration of Independance