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Magna Carta
A document the people forced King John -
Jamestown settled
amestown, Virginia, named after King James I, was Americas first permanent settlement. It encouraged other people to come to America. -
Mayflower Compact written
The Mayflower Compact was an informal document signed by a group of Separatists to create a government. They were also trying to get away from religious persecution in England. It is known as the “Foundation of the U.S. Constitution. -
Petition of Right
A document written in England that said what rights the king could not infringe upon. This included taxes that weren't carried out by Parliament. -
English Bill of Rights
This gave British Parliament many rights to do unfair things to America. It limited the rights of many of them. One example was it said they could not create an army in time of peace without consent of Parliament. -
Stamp Act
When British Parliament created a tax on all stamped documents. -
Boston Massacre
A mob of people in Boston had became violent in protest and began throwing things and threatening the British troops. The British army shot 5 innocent civilians and injured others -
First Continental Congress
When 12 of the 13 colonies met to talk about the intolerable acts and the solution. -
Intolerable Acts
When British Parliament created unfair laws to a new laws for the colonies. The new laws were unfair to the colonists. -
Second Continental Congress
The colonies met and created the Continental army and elected George Washington as the Commander. -
American Revolution start
When the thirteen colonies formed an army and fought England to try and become an independent Nation. -
Declaration of Independence
A document written by the 13 colonies that declared themselves independent. -
Articles of Confederation
The first Constitution of the United States. A plan was drawn up for a permanent union of the states. -
Shay's Rebellion
When Daniel Shay formed a small army and began an violent uprising because of financial crises. -
Philadelphia Convention
When the colonies met to discuss possible revisions to the Articles of Confederation. When they found they couldn't, they wrote our U.S. Constitution. -
Constitution Convention
When the colonies met to discuss possible revisions to the Articles of Confederation. When they found they couldn't, they wrote our U.S. Constitution. -
Connecticut Compromise
A compromise that was created during the Constitutional Convention that established that there were going to be two houses of Congress
