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Magna Carta
King John I of England was a cruel and greedy man, he ruled over his barons by threats, land seizure, fines, and forced marriages. Eventually his barrons rebelled against him and forced him to sign the Great Charter. This is where the modern idea of due process of law comes from, and the concept of life liberty and property. -
Jamestown settled
In 1607 James I of England gave John Smith and his party permission to make a colony, but they landed in the wrong place and made Jamestown. This was the first permenant settlement in America. -
Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower Compact, signed by English colonists on the ship Mayflower on November 11, 1620, was the first written framework of government established in what is now the United States. The compact was drafted to prevent dissent amongst Puritans and non-separatist Pilgrims who had landed at Plymouth a few days earlier. -
Petition of Right
A petition sent by the English Parliament to King Charles I complaining of a series of breaches of law. The petition sought recognition of four principles: no taxation without the consent of Parliament, no imprisonment without cause, no quartering of soldiers on subjects, and no martial law in peacetime. -
English Bill of Rights
The Bill of Rights asserted that Englishmen had certain inalienable civil and political rights, Free speech in Parliament was also protected. -
Albany Plan of Ubnion
The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government. The plan was adopted on July 10, 1754, by representatives from seven of the British North American colonies. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars on March 5, 1770. It was the culmination of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since Royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts in October 1768 to enforce the heavy tax burden imposed by the Townshend Acts. All the soliders involved were let go. -
Intolorable Acts
The Boston Port Act, Massachusetts Government act, Administration of Justice act, quartering act, Quebec Act, Stamp Act, and the Tea act were all laws passed without the consent of the colonies and caused much hatred. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party of December 16, 1773, took place when a group of Massachusetts Patriots, protesting the monopoly on American tea importation recently granted by Parliament to the East India Company, seized 342 chests of tea in a midnight raid on three tea ships and threw them into the harbor -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress, which was comprised of delegates from the colonies, met in 1774 in reaction to the Coercive Acts, a series of measures imposed by the British government on the colonies in response to their resistance to new taxes. -
Begining of the American Revolution
In April of 1775 , the british learned that millitias were gathering weapons at Concord, this led to an exchange of fire between the Britis and American millitias. -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates of the thirteen colonies, under this congress they ratafied the articles of confederation, created the millitary and drafted the declaration of independance. -
Declaration of Independance
The Document which officially declared our separation from the British Empire, and estblished ourselves as a free independant nation. -
Articles of Confederation
The Articals of Confederation were drafted in 1777 but was not accepted by all the colonies until 1781. It served as our constitution until replaced by the constitution in 1789. -
Shays Rebellion
Shays's Rebellion, 1786–87, armed insurrection by farmers in W Massachusetts against the state government -
Philidelphia Convention
This was a convention convened to revise the Articals of confederation. but instead they ended up writing the Constitution ,instead of simply revising the articles. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used -
Conneticut Compromise
This was the document presented by Roger Sherman to the Continental Congress which resolved the issue of representation.
