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Jun 15, 1215
Magna Carta
The Magna Carta is a charter agreed by King John of England at Runnymede. First drafted by the Archbishop of Canterbury to make peace between the unpopular King and a group of rebel barons, it promised the protection of church rights and protection for the barons from illegal imprisonment, -
Jamestown settled
Jamestown is the first successful English settlement on the mainland of North America. -
Mayflower Compact written
Was the first governing document of Plymouth colony. It was written by people who called themselves "saints' later known as Pilgrams or Pilgram fathers. They were fleeing religious persecution by King James of England. -
Petition of Right
The Petition of Right is a major English constitutional document that sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing. -
English Bill of Rights
The English Bill of Rights is a bill that creates separation of powers, limits the powers of the king and queen, enhances the democratic election and bolsters freedom of speech. -
Albany Plan of Union
The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies. This was suggested by Benjamin Franklin and a delegate from Pensylvania. -
Stap Act
An act of the British Parliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. Colonial opposition led to the act's repeal in 1766 and helped encourage the revolutionary movement against the British Crown. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston.The demonstrators, some disguised as Native Americans, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company, in defiance of the Tea Act -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were the American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. -
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First Continental congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. It was called in response to "The passage of the Coercive Acts" by the British Parliament. -
American Revolution Begins
A war between Britain and the original 13 colonies and Britain which led to the United States independence. -
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Second Continental Congress
The second Congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence. By raising armies, directing strategy, appointing diplomats, and making formal treaties such as the Olive Branch Petition -
Declaration of Independence
It is a statement that announced that the thirteen colonies regard themselves as thirteen newly independent free states and no longer apart of the British Empire. These new states would be known as the United States of America -
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Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation served as the written document that established the functions of the national government of the United States after it declared independence from Great Britain. -
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Shay's Rebellion
Shay's rebellion was an armed uprising in Massachusetts. Where war veteran Daniel Shays led four thousand rebels in rising up against economic injustice and suspension of the civil rights. -
Philadelphia Convention & Constitution Convection
The Convention was intended to revise the Articles of Confederation, but most of the members such as James Madison and Alexander Hamilton wanted to create a new government rather than fix the old one -
Connecticut Comprise
The Connecticut Comprise was an agreement that defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the U.S's constitution.
