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Feb 1, 1215
Magna Carta
a.) King John and the Barons signed it and it was signed in England
b.) No taxes levied without consent of parliment, No subject maybe imprisoned without cause. -
Mayflower Compact
a.) The purpose was to ensure that settlers who came off the Mayflower to Plymouth Rock would establish a fair government ruled by majority. -
Petition of Rights
b.) Charles the first -
English Bill of Rights
a.) Williams & Mary b.) Freedom of speech, press, assembly, and religion -
Albany Plan of Union
a.) Benjamin Franklin, It happend but failed b.) Join or Die -
French and Indian War
a.) Great Britain, France, and the American Indians
b.) Qubec, Battle of river, Battle of Lake George, Oswego
c.) The British
d.) We supported the British because we were apart of there colonies -
King George III takes power
He would take the other 13 colonies back to England and he made the colonist pay for the war. -
Stamp Act
a.) Everything that had to do with paper b.) The House of Burgess defeated most of Patrick Henry's resolutions -
Boston Massacre
a.) The Boston Massacre killed 5 colonists b.) The Stamp act and taking of tea -
Boston Tea Party
a.) The Sons of Liberty orginized the event. b.) Closed Boston ports and destroyed the Massachusetts government. -
First Continental Congress
a.) John Paul Jones, and the British
b.) The Treaty of Paris
c.) Massachusetts -
Intolerable Acts
a.) The British lost large amounts of money. b.) Parliment related duties, Except for tea. -
Lexington and Concord
a.) British soldiers seized gun powder in concord
b.) Lord Percy for the British and John parker for America
c.) He was sent to alert the troops the British were coming. -
Second Continental Congress
a.) Philadelphia
b.) A push for the Declaration of Independance
c.) Thomas Jefferson -
Articles of Confederation
a.) Samual Hunting & Thomas Mckean -
