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Jun 15, 1215
Magna Carta
The Magna Carta gaurenteed important documents in history and people certain rights,bound to the kings certain laws. -
Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower Compact was a first governing document of plymouth written by separatist congregations -
Petition of rights
The petition of rights was a major English constitutional document that sets out specific liberties of the subject the king is prohibited from infringing. -
Navigation act
The Navigation act is a series of laws that restricted the use of foreign ships for trade between Britian and it's colonies. -
English Bill of Rights
The English Bill of Rights is seperation of powers,limits and the powers of the king and queen, enhanses the democratic election and bolsters freedom of speech. -
Proclamation of 1763
King George III following great brittans acquisition of french territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian war,which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along appalechain mountains -
Sugar act
Colonial merchants had been required to pay a tax of six pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses. -
Stamp Act
Printed materials made and produced in London were the revenue stamps. -
Boston Tea Party
" No taxation without representation" -
Coercive acts
Coercive acts are names used to describe a series of laws relating to the British colonies in North America and passed by the British Parliament. Four of the acts were issued in different response to the Boston Tea Party. -
Lexington / Concord
First military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of 13 colonies at carpenters Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
First shots fired at Lexington /Concord
First shots starting the revolution, General Thomas Gage sent 700 soldiers destroyed guns and ammunition colonists had stored in town. -
Second Continenetal Congress
Manage the colonial war effort, and moved incrementaly towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence. -
Declaration of Independence
The government exists for the benefit of the people and that 'all men created equal." Adopted by the 13 American colonies on July 4th the document is regarded as the best written statement of individual rights in history.
