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Jun 30, 1215
Magma Carta
•Trial by jury
•Fundamental rights
•Limited the governments power
•They can't take life liberty or property -
Mayflower Compact
•first governing document of the Plymouth colines
•they fled from king James because of religious rights.
•Came to America for free religion -
Petition of Rights
•English document that prohibits the British rulers from enforcing certan rules against the people.
• restrictions on non-Parliamentary taxation, forced billeting of soldiers, imprisonment without cause, and the use of martial law. -
Navigation Act
- laws that didnt allow foreign ships for trade between Britain and its colonies. -One possiable cause for reviloutionary war
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English Bill of Rights
-The Bill creates seperation of powers
-Limits the King and Queen
-Encouage Freedom of Speech -
Proclamation of 1763
-Limited where the citizens could expand to because the French owned it and told settlers to not pass the appalacian mountains-The constitution gave people the right to own and develop property. -
Sugar Act
-The Sugar Act reduced the rate of tax on molasses from six pence to three pence per gallon
-It also made forign foods have tax. -
Stamp Act
-Tax placed on colinies
-you had to put a stamp on things such as paper becuse it was like the tax
-no taxation without reprensation -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party had to do with:
*A key event in the growth of the American Revolution
* Lead to parliament responding in 1774 with the Coercive Acts, or Intolerable Acts.
* Lead to the First Continental Congress -
First Continetal Congress
-Their main tasks were to make sure that the King and Parliament of England must be made to understand why the colonies were upset. -The people of the congress also wanted to do everything possible to communicate what they thought was important to the population of America, and to the rest of the world. - These ideas would be used to write the constitution. -
Corcive act
The Corcive Act was:
*Englands way of trying to get back at the people in the Boston Tea Party
* The colonists’ response to the Act was to try and rebel even more which eventually lead to fighting. -
First Shots fired at Lexington\Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord signaled the start of the American Revolutionary war on April 19, 1775 because:
* The British army came to Lexington and the first shot of the war was fired.
* The Americans fled from the British in Lexington and went to Concord.
* The Americans beat the British at Concord which helped them know they could break away from England. -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was:
* A convention of people from the Thirteen Colonies
* It continued the congress that started meeting in the summer of 1775
* They continued talking about indepence
* They created the Declaration of Independence which helped make the Constitution. -
Decloration of independence
-When the colinies finally declared there indepenence from Britian. America was there own free contry.
