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Period: Jun 1, 1200 to
Road to the Constitution
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Jun 19, 1215
Magna Carta
It was signed by King John in Runnymede near Windsor Castle in England. It did not give any new rights, but it did protect all of the rights that were already established. -
Mayflower Compact
Signed by 41 English Colonists aboard the MayFlower. It was the first written framework of government established in what is now the United States. -
Petition of Rights
It was signed by Charles I
It reinstated the stability of the Declaration of Rights presented by the Convention Parliament to invite William and Mary to become Joint Sovereigns. It protects certain Right of the citizens and permanent residents of a Constitutional Monarchy that were thought they should be entitled. -
English Bill of Rights
the King and Queen William and Mary of Orange were all involved in the signing of the english bill of rights. some of the rights given to people because of this document include Catholics being banned from the throne, and Kings and Queens had to swear oaths to maintain Protestantism as the official religion of England. -
Albany Plan of Union
The Albany Plan of Union was a proposal for a unified central government for the 13 colonies. it was sugessested by Ben Franklin, and he was also the creator of the join or die comic. (see picture) -
French and Indian War
The major players were the French, and the Brittish.The brittish ended up winning the war, the major battles were: Battle of Qubec 1759, Battle od Quiberon Bay 1759 -
King George III Takes Power
King George the third ruled for 59 years, 3 months, and 2 days before dying at Winsor Castle. He canged the relationship of the british colonies by -
Stamp Act
This act taxed all paper/printed things in the colonies. The colonists believed that this act was an attempt to raise money in the colonies, without the approval of colonial legislatures. As a result, they protested it by tarring and feathering tax collectors. -
Boston Massacre
Five colonists were killed, and six more were injured. The acts leading up to this were the Townshead Acts, the growing mistrust between americian soilders and brittish soildiers, and the removal of two out of four Brittish regiments. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was organized by the Sons Of Liberty. The brittish responded by creating the Intolerable Acts. They closed the Boston Ports and destroyed the Massachusetts government. -
Intolerable Acts
These acts were a result of the Boston Tea Party. The British closed all of Boston's Ports until the colonist's payed for the tea they destroyed, the colonist were not allowed to have government/committees/town meetings the British allowed them selves to house troops in the colonist's homes. -
First Continental Congress
The first meeting met in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia PA.
John Adams, Samuel Adams, Caesar Rodney, George Washington, Patrick Henry. Were some of the men who were present. -
Lexington and Concord
This event began the Americian Revolution. Paul Revere rode in from the port and told where the British were coming in from so that the colonists could attack them. The major generals involved were Sam Adams and John Hancock. -
Second Continental Congress
Started in the Summer of 1775, came after the first one. Took place in Independance Hall Philidelphia, PA. The ideas that were written into the Declaration of Independance were thought of here. John Adams, Sam Adams, Benjamin Franklin, George Wahsington, Patrick Henry were just some of the figures there -
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The Articles of Confederation
John Hanson woud have been the first president under the articles. The aricles were the first form of government in the colonies. -
The Treaty of Paris
France had to give up all of its North American possessions, All of their land west of the Mississippi, and New Orleans went to Spain. All land east of the Mississippi River and Canda went to England. Ben Franklin and John Jay represnted the Colonists. -
Start of the Constitutional Convention
12 delegates from five states (New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Virginia), that unanimously voted for a Constitutional Convention. The Constitutional Convention was called because the colonists believed that the federal government established by the Articles of Confederation was too weak
