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Jan 1, 1215
Magna Carta
The Magna Crata was signed by King John in Runnymede near Windsor Castle. It's a written promises bwtween the kind and his subjects that he, the king would govern England and deal with its people according to the customs of the feudal law. It stated that laws would be good and fair. It states that everyone shall have access to courts and that costs and money should not be an issue if someone wanted to take a problem to the law courts. -
Mayflower Compact
This was the first governing document of the Plymouth Colony. It was the first written framework of government established in what is now the United States. It was drafted to prevent dissent amongst Puritans and non-separatish Pilgrims who had landed at Plymouth a few days earlier. -
Petition of Rights
rightsThis was an English constitutional document that sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing. It contains the rights of non-Parlimentary taxation, forced billeting of soldiers, imprisonment without cause, and restricts the use of martial law. King Charles I had signed the document approving it. -
English Bill of Right
This English Bill of Rights limited the power of the English sovereign, and was written as an act of Parliament. King and Queen William and Mary Orange accepted the English Bill of Rights as a condition of their rule. Catholics where banned from the throne and king and queens had to swear into oath to maintain Protestantism. -
Albany Plan of Union
Benjamin Franklin had suggested the plan. It had never happened because it was the first important plan to conceive o fthe colonies as a collective who united under one government. The cartoon was a picture of a snake cut into 8 different pieces representing the colonies. Underneath of that it had the words of join or die. The head part of the snake with his head off was representing New England. -
French & Indian war
video of the french and indian warin 1754 the french and indian war started it has a few countried that were invoved in it the were Austria, England, France Great Britain, Prussia & the sweedish. it was fought because of the treaty of paris. It changed our relationship with the brittish on many of ways. Such as concuding the war because they belived they had secured a glorious future in vanquishing the french. Alsong with the brittish , the spainrairds also won. one major battle was the fort Louisbourg. -
King George III takes power
King George III was remembered for two things, losing the American colonies and going mad. Historians have said that is was a mental instability that was caused by a hereditary physical disorder called porphyria. He changed the relationship because he opposed their bif for independence to the end, but he didn't develop the policies which led to the war in 1775-76 and which had the support of Parliament. -
Stamp Act
It was the first internal tax levied directly on American colonists by the British government. The act was started when the British Empire was deep in debt because of the French and Indian War. The taxes were put onto every piece of paper that was printed like legal documents,newspaper, and even playing cards. The colonial leaders ranged from boycotts of British goods to riots and attacks on the tax collectors. -
Boston Massacre
It was the tensions in the American colonies taht had been growing since Royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts in October 1768 to enforce the heavy tax burden imposed by the Townshend Act. There were 5 colonists killed, 3 died immediately and two died the next day because of there wounds. The Townshend Act was trying to be enforced when a British soldier was having snowballs thrown at him. Capt. Thomas Preston was arrested for manslaughter, along with eight of his men. -
Boston Tea Party
The Massachusetts Patriots had set up this event. The British passed the Intolerable Acts they acts were they closed the Boston Harbor and said that the city had to pay for the tea that had been dumped. -
Intolerable Acts
the intolerable acts were msde to pleause the people in the colonies to help make them not rebel and settle things down. some of the acts were basic human rights such as fair taxes on iteams that are being shipped -
First Continetal Congress
It was a meeting to bring order and to bring the colonies togeather to fight the british. It was set at carpenters hill in PA. all the colonies atteneded but Georgia. They managed to accompish a channel of communications throughout the country adn to the world. Also they set up the intolerable acts. -
Second Contental Congress
the second contental congress was hosted in philiy it was suppose help make new rules regulations and bring further order to the colonies. they decied to create a contental army to fight the british. -
Lexington and Concord
This was the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. A few of the main leaders of the war were Lieutenant Colonel Francis Smith, Brigadier General Hugh Percy, and Lieutenant Jesse Adair. Paul Revere rode through the town of Boston and yelled "the British are coming!" By morning Boston was surrounded by a huge militia army of about 15,000 troops. -
Start of Constitutional Convention
The first day of the convention was suppose to start on May 14 but because there were only 8 delegates present they held it off until May 25. The convention was held from May 25 to Sept. 17, 1787. They were they address problems in the governing of the United States of America. They were operating under the Articles of Confederation following independence from Great Britain. Rather then fixing the old government they were just going to create a new one. -
Declaration of Independence
history of declaration of independencethe declaration of independence was the thing that made us who we are. It said we were own our own and we were our own counrty and it set a very broad set of guidlens that we follow til this day. -
Articles of Confederation
This was a written agreement, uniting the thirteen founding states, and serving as the states' first consitiution, or set of princples by which each state was governed. The first step of this was to create a government for the states as a nation.
