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Mar 4, 1215
Magna Carta
a. King John at Runnymede, on the bank of the River THames near Windsor, England
b. Human rights; right of the church -
Mayflower Compact
a. to ensure that the settlers who came off the mayflower and landed at Plymouth Rock would establis a fair government ruled by majority -
Englsih Bill of Rights
a. Parliment
b. having freedom and settling the succession of the crown -
ALbany Plan of Union
a. english officals
b. no because the plan could create a very powerful entity that the kings governemtn might not be able to control
c. join or die
d. ben franklin -
French and Indian War
a. great britian, France and Native Americans
b. Great lakes and New England
c. Britain
d. the colonists realized they had their own society with their own traditions, customs and identities -
King GeorgeIII takes power
a. angered colonists; believed they should pay for their part of the war. also, they had new taxes to pay. -
Stamp Act
a. legal documents, licenses, newspaper and other publications
b. reacted immediately, asserting that the stamp act was an attept to raise money in the colonies with out approval of coloniol legislatures -
Stamp Act Link
Stamp Act this website tells you more about the Stamp Act -
Boston Massacre
a. 5
b. intolerable actm stamp act -
Boston Massacre Video link
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Boston Tea Party
a. sons of libery
b. british governemnt passed the intolerable act -
First Continental COngress
a. col. George Washington, RIchard Henry Lee, Patrick Henry
b. the colonists signed a petition and sent it to england demanding the intolerable acts he realsed -
Intolerable Acts
a. the boston tea party
b. boston port act, Massachusetts government actm adminstration of justice, Quaftering act -
Lexington and Concord
a. Lexington won by british, concord by the patriots
b. colonel smith, major putcarne and lord percy
c. rode a horse to town to warn the people the british are coming -
Second Continental Congress
a. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania states house
b. talked about the articles of confederation that got ratified
c. John Adams, THomas Jeffereon, John Hancock -
Declaration of Independence
a. THomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, ROger SHerman, John Adams
b. the introduction, THe preamble, the conclusion -
Articles of COnfederation
q. john hanson
b. success: winning the war for independence, passing the northwest ordiance, and allowed establishment of a federal government
failures: raising/maintaining a military, commerence between states, foreign relations and raising taxes -
Petition of RIghts
a. no subject may be imprisoned without cause shown
b. Charles I -
The treaty of Paris
a. John Jay
b. MIssissippi River
c. American Independence -
Start of Constitutional COnvention
a. a meeting called :meting of commissioners to remedy defects of federal government"
b. to remedy barriers which limited trade or commerce between the states under the Articles of Conferderation -
Magna Carta1215
Magna Carta here it will tell you how this occured
