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Jun 15, 1215
Magna Carta
King John was forced to sign away his powers as king durring a rebellion, these powers established the idea that monarchs power could be inabsolute.
It gave us the ideas of...
-trial by jury
-due process of law
-no arbitrary taking of liberties -
Mayflower Compact
The mayflower compact was the first governing document of the colony of plymouth. This established the feeling of indepenednce from Britain.
It gave us...
-independence as an ideal -
The petition of right
It was a major constitutional document of England which gives specific liberties to the people with which the king can not interfere with. Although the kind disagreed with the document, he required the money from pairlement to support his war efforts and thus signed it into contract.
It gives us such rights as...
-trial by jury
-no habeus corpus
-no martial law is to be used in times of peace -
The Navigation Acts
The navigation acts were a series of laws that restricted the use of foreign ships for trade between Britain and its colonies. The American Colonies came to resent the new acts. This contributed to some of the original hatred of their rulers, England, later to the revolutionary war -
English Bill of Rights
It delt with constitutional matters and established certain cilvil rights.
It gave us...
-trial by jury
-due process of law
-the right to private property
-no crude and unusual punnishment
-right to petition and the right to bear arms. -
Proclamation of 1763
This doctrine signed by king George III forbade settlement past a line drawn thru the apalachain mountains. It served as a reason for the revolution to break out. -
Sugar Act
It was a revenue raisin act passed by pairlement on sugar, In basic terms raising taxes on sugar trade. This is another of the documents that raised independent fervor and eventually add up to the revolutionary war. -
Stamp Act
Added taxes to official documents, by the use of stamps. from this america grew even more impatient with Brittish taxes and eventually began the revolutionary war. -
Boston Tea Party
Protest of Brittish taxes, the colonist felt unfairly represented while being taxed (taxation without representation). The eventual outcome was...
-right to protests
-hatred of taxes
eventually this too contributed to the revolutionary war. -
First Continental Congress
Meeting of delegates of 12 of the thirteen colonies, they disscussed the coercive acts and how they felt about them.
This gave us...
-representative government -
Coercive Acts
These acts were meant to punnish massachutesets for the Boston tea party. It took away massachutesets self governing rights and historic rights.
this contributed to the revolution. -
Second Continental Congress
The representatives of all thirteen states came together and officially declared independence from britain.
This encouraged our
-representative government
-nationalism -
The Shot Heard Round The World
First shots fired at lexington,
This was the first act of war on britain and an unofficial start to the revolution. -
Signing of the Declaration of Independence
This gave way to the newly independent united states of america,
It gave us the rights to...
-life
-Liberty
-persuit of happiness
