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Jun 15, 1215
Magana Carta
A) On June 15, 1215, in a field at Runnymede, King John affixed his seal to Magna Carta.
B) "No freeman shall be taken, imprisoned, disseised, outlawed, banished, or in any way destroyed, nor will We proceed against or prosecute him, except by the lawful judgment of his peers and by the law of the land." -
May Flower Compact
A. Created to prevent conflict between puritans and non-separatist Pilgrims. -
Petition of Rights
A) 1- that no freeman should be forced to pay any tax, loan, or benevolence, unless in accordance with an act of parliament
2- that no freeman should be imprisoned contrary to the laws of the land
3- that soldiers and sailors should not be billeted on private persons
4- commissions to punish soldiers and sailors by martial law should be abolished
B) Charles I -
English Bill of rights
A) King James II and John Locke
B) 1- Freedom of speech
2- No standing army may be maintained during a time of peace without the consent of parliament
3- Freedom to petition the monarch without fear of retribution
4- No standing army may be maintained during a time of peace without the consent of parliament. -
French and Indian War
A) British America and New France
B) Battle at Fort Niagara, Battle of Quebec, Battle of Quiberon Bay
C) Britain and America
D) They started taxing us which is what started the revolution. -
Albany Plan of Union
A. Benjamin Franklin
B. No it was never used
C. Join or die cartoon by Benjamin franklin -
King George III takes power
A. The French and Indian war doubled Brittain's debt and this caused King George III to tax the colonies -
Stamp Act
A) tomatoes, rum, coffee, kerosine, potatoes, stamps, ammo, guns
B) Debates, protests, riots -
Boston Massacre
A. 5 colonists were killed
B. Townshend Acts -
Boston Tea Party
A) East India Trade Company
B) Inolerable Acts which closed the Boston Ports and destroyed the Massachusetts government -
Intolerable Acts
A) The Boston Tea
B) The British closed all of Boston's Ports until the colonist's payed for the tea they destroyed during the Boston Tea Party.
- British restricted colonist to have government/committees/town meetings.
- British allowed them selves to house troops where ever, when ever, in the colonist's homes.
- They let British officials accused of crimes stand trial in Britain, instead of the colonies, and to make Tomas Gage (loyalist) be a governor of the colonies. -
First Continental congress
A) Roger Sherman, Patrick Henry, George Washington
B) The first was a compact among the colonies to boycott British goods, and to provide for a Second Continental Congress to meet
C) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -
Lexington and Concord
A) The british were defeated at Concord by the colonist's militia
B) Brigadier General Hugh Percy, General Thomas Gage
C) He road on a horse to Conocord to warn everyone that the British are coming -
Second Continental Congress
A) Philidelphia State House
B) Made George Washington commanding general of the Continental Army, authorized printing of money, at first the majority of the delegates were for peace with Brittain but by the end tides changed eventually resulting in the Decleration of Independence
C) Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Richard Henry Lee
http://www.ushistory.org/us/10e.asp -
Decleration of Independence
the decleration accuse king George the third of 27 abuses and repeated offenses to the colonies. The colonies present a reason for why they should be peacefully seperated from Brittain and of course it does not end up peaceful.
http://www.independencedayfun.com/263/summary-of-the-declaration-of-independence/ -
Articles of Confederation
A) George Washington -
Start of the Constitutional Convention
