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Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower Compact was the first try at establishing a government for the "new world". -
Petition of Rights
under this petition, the king could not impose marshal law in times of peace, prisoners must be able to chalenge their detention, and no non parlimentry taxing. -
English Bill of Rights
The Parliment of England signed the English Bill of Rights on this date. the purpose of this was to limit the power of royalty in England. -
Albany Plan of Union
this was an idea sugested by ben frankin, it was an idea that said all 13 unions should be united under one government. the plan never took action, and although it was never did, there is a famous political cartoon that almost everyone has seen, the snake in severed pieces representing each individual state. -
French and Indian War
The French and Indian war was between Great Britian, France, ANd the American Indians. the major battles in this war was the Battle of the Mononahela River and the Battle of Quebec. The war was won by the British. This had a negitive effect on the relationship with the British and America. -
King George the III takes power
King George The Third increased the taxes on the colinist which injured the relationship between British colinist. -
Stamp Act
the stamp act was an act that that imposed a direct tax by the British Parliament specifically on the colonies of British America. The Colonial leaders were not happy by this and did not send any representaives to parliment. -
Boston Massacre
During the Boston massacre 5 colonist were killed. the act that was being forced was the townshend act. -
Boston Tea Party
boston tea partyThis was a protest organized by the sons of liberty, a group of individuals siezed over 300 creats of tea and dumped them in the harbor. In response to this event, was the coercive acts, or intolerable acts. -
Intolerable Acts
these acts were a response to the boston tea party. The parliment then iduced acts such as the block aid of the harbor where the tea was dumped, and an altered controll of the massachusetts government to great brittian. -
first continental congress
the first continental congress was a group of representitives from 12 colonies. During the time that they met, they established the declaration of rights. All of their meetings took place at the carpenters hall in philadelphia. -
Second Continential Congress
the Second continential congress took place in philadelphia soon after the american revolutionary war had started. when they met they talked about declaring their independence from great brittian. -
Lexington and Concord
The battle of Lexington and Concord was won by the Americans. some of the major generals in this battle was Thomas Gage and Colonel Smith. Paul Revere was the one to see that the British were coming and was going to warn everyone but was captured. -
Declaration of Independence
This is a document that states that the thirteen original colinies are now independent states and are no longer under the rule of the British. -
Articles of Confederation
This was the first constitution of the united states, under it john hanson was the first president. -
Start of Constitution
This was originally intended to revise articles of confederation but resulted in the U.S Constitution
