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Jun 15, 1215
Magna Carta
63 Clauses of the Magna Carta
Signed by King John in Runnymede, England.
Access to courts, fair trial; eliminating unfair fines, punishments; giving power to the Catholic Church in England. -
Mayflower Compact
Bound the pilgrims together once they reached America. -
Petition of Rights
Rights gained were: no taxation without the consent of Parliament, no imprisonment without cause, no quartering of soldiers on subjects, and no martial law in peacetime. The document was signed by the people of England. -
English Bill of Rights
Text of English Bill of Rights
Signed by William of Orange and Mary II.
Freedoms include: Freedom of speech, freedom to bear arms, and freedom from cruel and unusual punishment. -
French and Indian War
1754-1763
Native Americans joined the French in a war against the British. The British won the war and began taxing the colonists for the war expenses. Some key battles include: The Battle at Fort Necessity, The Battle of the Wilderness, and The Battle at Oswego. -
Albany Plan of Union
Proposed by Benjamin Franklin, the Albany Plan of Union, which never succeeded, was a plan to centralize the government of the 13 colonies. -
King George III takes power
He caused a very strained relationship between Britian and the colonies because of taxation after the French and Indian War. -
Stamp Act
Stamp Act text
All paper goods were taxed in some way. The colonists were very unhappy about this because it wasnt a tax to pay for part of the process with the paper, it was a money raising effort assered by the British government to offset the debt that Britain had incurred. -
Boston Massacre
The death of 5 colonists during the enforcement of the Townshend Acts. -
Boston Tea Party
Organized and completed by colonists in Boston. British respond by passing the Intolerable Acts. -
Intolerable Acts
Caused by the Boston Tea Party. The Intolerable Acts included: the Boston Port Bill, the Administration of Justice Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Quebec Act, and the updated Quartering Act. This meant that the British had: cut off Connecticut, Massechusetts, and Virginia from the other colonies; closed the Boston port until the dumped tea was paid for; annulled the charter of the colonies; given British Officials omnipotent power in the colonies; forced colonists into housing and.. -
Intolerable Acts (cont)
feeding British soldiers. -
First Continental Congress
Resulted in the colonies no longer obeying British rule and the later refusal to import British made goods. 56 delegates from 12 colonies met in Philadelphia. -
Lexington and Concord
The battles started the Revolutionary War. Paul Revere rode to announce that the British were coming after hanging 2 lanterns in the steeple to signify that they were coming by sea. The major general was British General Thomas Gage. -
Second Continental Congress
Took place in Philadelphia. Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and John Hancock were named as delegates. This meeting would end with the establishment of the Continental Army and the election of George Washington as Commander-in-Chief. -
Declaration of Independence
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Articles of Confederation
The first president was to be John Hanson. -
Start of Constitutional Convention
The stated goal of revising the Articles of Confederation was quickly discarded and replaced by the competing concepts of the new government.
