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Jun 29, 1215
The Magna Carta
link2link1The Magna Carta was a charter that had the liberties and political rights of the people brought up from King John of England. This document protected the rights and property of the people. Even the property of the less powerful. The document was used to stop John from raising funds.Mainy of the values the Magna Carta had were what the Americans were looking for to use in our government. Meaning that all of these things influenced our constitution. -
Thirteen Colonies
The relationship between the colonies and England was not good. They were very distant and hard to control. There was no representation of the colonies to Britain, which lead to voilence and rebellion and independence. -
The Creation of the Thirteen Colonies 1607-1733
link2link1Life in the Colonies were immigrates from the England, leaving England for many reasons of poverty and religious reasons. Most of the new settlers paid for there livings through farming. But the land wasnt the best for farming, filled with forests, rocks, and many valleys. The colonies were divided; New England, Middle Colonies, and Southern Colonies. Each colonie formed there own undifieded governments creating documents to go with them. -
Early American Settlers
Link1People came to America for many different reasons. America was something new and exciting. Many came for the great oppertunity to become land owners. Owning land could create new job. Fishing and farming became a big export of the united states. The government in the New World was orginally a small and independent, consisting of farmers. Then eventually changed into a complex system. -
Early American Settlers part2
link2An ordered governement is where there are regulations on the government and varies parts of the state. Limited government is when there are regulations placed on things you can and can not do. incuring the rights of the citizens. Then there is a representative government when the public votes on people to create polices for them. -
The Mayflower Compact
link2link1The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of the Phlymouth colony. The Mayflower Compact is important because of its principle. The Compact stated that the authority to make laws in the colony was based off the people that live in the colony. The Plymouth Colony became the most democratic colonyat that time. Most of the men had a shareholder in the company and had the right to vote for governer of the Conlony. -
Petition of Right
link2link1A document that set out the major libiterties of the citizens. This was not an american document it was set by English Parliment. The ideas that came from this document inspired the American settlers to think about them for the type of government they would like to have. The document had no tax, could not be imprisioned unless proven, and martial law cannot be used in a time of peace. -
English Bill of Rights
link2link1 The English Bill of Rights is an act that tells the Rights and Liberties of the people. The document contrained the first 10 amendments giving the right to individual freedoms and limitation on the control the government has. This is just what the new settlers were looking for in there government, less control because that is what they were getting away from. Also the form of government they wanted was democracy. -
Albany Plan of Union
Ben Franklin proposed the Albany Plan, It was his attempt to form a union of the colonies. The plan was rejected by the colonies because none of them could agree. All the colonies had to many different characteristics. Although congress did agree with the plan delegates rejected it. The many reason for the thought of the Albany Plan was to strenghten the coloinies against France. -
The Stamp Act
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The Acted passed by British Parliament directed to the 13 colonies. I could not find how this directly brought tension between the colonies and England. Many people that came to the colonies were running from England because of there taxes. Therefore these new taxes put on by the parliment upset many for the new colonists. The coloniest thought that this act ment britian was trying to replace their courts with the courts of England -
The Boston Massacre
Link2link1 The Massacre of five men and hurt six others by British soldiers. The soldiers were in Boston to keep order with in the town because the people were upset with taxation brought by the Townshend acts. The teansion between the people and soldiers began growing, eventually turning into a mob. the soldiers attempted to end it by shooting up into the air with out orders, which is were the death and injuries come into play. -
Boston Massacre Part 2
After the event tension grew between the colonies. Some say that the event was a foreshadow to the American Revolutionary War. -
The Tea Act and Boston Tea Party
link2link1This was another tax that came directly from the Britist Parliament. The British increased the tax on tea, colonist were not happy with this act. The goal of the colonist were that the tea did not make it to the land. In Boston on December 16, 1773 the people got onto the tea ship and dumped the tea into the harbor. The British Parliament did not find this act cleaver and in return passing the Coercive Acts. After tension rose between the colonies and England this broke out into the American War -
First Continental Congress
link1This was a meeting brought all the colonies together in secret to make decions for the them as one. But it was in secret so that Great Britian did not know they were working together. The meeting was trying to make liberty and things stronger. Resulting from these meeting was the Marine Corps and Declerationg of Independence. -
The American Revolution
The American Colonist were frustrated with British rule and taxation without representation so the Colonist prepared for a rebellion, and made Minute Men. Paul Revere rode out to tell the townspeople in Lexington that, "the British are coming." Shots were fired in Lexington, leaving eight colonists dead, this event was know as, "the shots heard around the world." Sparking the American Revolution. The Colonist fought untill July 4, 1776, when they got their Independance from British rule. -
The American Revolution Part2
The Independance the American Colonist earned showed other Colonies the British controlled that they could be stopped. The American Revolution was very inspiring to other colonized nations. -
Second Continental Congress
link2[link1](why-were-there-two-continental-congresses-287637)There was a second Continental Congress to bring back the colonies together to draft a stronger document. Britain had rejected the first Continental Congress. At this meeting they drafted the Declaration of Independence. -
Declaration of Independence
link2link1The Declaration of Independence is a document brought from the Continental Congress. The 13 colonies were at war with Great Britian, they were no longer part of the British Empire. The document was written to break away from Great Britian. To be an American is respecting our values and laws. American value is giving your life to your country and his property. He will fallow law, to make a life of his own and for his children. -
Declaration of Indendence
LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS
The values of the Declaration of Indendence! -
End of the Revolutionary War
link2link1The AOC were inadequate for the US government for a few reasons. The document did not have a president, a weak central government, there was no power of tax, and gave the congress all the power to declare war, choose military officers, sign treaties, and make alliances. From the AOC problems arose with inflation, many printing prices went up. This lead to tension between the states. -
The Article of Confederation
link2link1The AOC was a document formed by the new 13 colonies. This document was the US first constitution. It formed a democratic vote, but there was no presedent most of the power was held in the branches, executive, jugical, and legislative. The AOC was not a strong government but it was the first. The strengths were to make peace and sign treaties, yet they could not enforce them. The state allowed you to borrow money but they had no power to collect taxes from the state. -
Mount Vernon 1785
link2link1George washington invited people fromVirginia and Maryland to Mount Vernon to talk about rights in the states' about the waterways they shared. The Mount Vernon Conference lead to the states wanting to have meeting when ever there is a concern about things they share. The meeting became a stepping stone to the United States Constitution. -
Annapolis 1786
The meeting held in Annapolis, Maryland had 12 delagates from 5 states brought together for a constitutional convention. The main reason to hold the meeting was to figure out away to make changes to the Articles of Confederation to make the states more powerful. The meeting ended up leading to the creation of the Constitution of the United States. -
The Virginia Plan
link2link1The Virginia plan proposed the idea of the new Legislature should be based off of population of the state, rather than have equal representation for the states. It was looked to be better than the AOC because it didnt allow the the larger states to take control of the government. Of the ones that opposed this plan it was mostly the smaller states because they had less of a population. -
The Connecticut Compromise
link2link1The Connecticut Compromise was a compromise between the large and small states of the US. The sompromise was figuring out how to define the legislative structure and representation of the states under the Constitution. The compromise was that each state had one delegate for every 40,000 including slaves. Each state did have an equal vote though. This became known as the Great Compromise of the convention. -
The New Jersey Plan
[link2](library.thinkquest.org/11572/creation/framing/va_nj_plans.html)[link1](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey_Plan)This plan was made to responded to the Virgina Plan. This plan wanted each state to have one vote per state under only one legislative body. This seemed to be a better alternitive because it made each state equal in votes. No state would over power another. Some people opposed this plan because the larger states believed they needed more people to repesent them. Which is fair because how is one person suppose to make everyone happy if they have 46000 people and one person as 6000. -
The Three-Fifths Compromise
link1The Three-Fifths compromise was an agreement between the North and South states during the Constitutional Convention. This compromise stated that only three fifths of the slaves were aloud to be counted in the aspect of taxation and representation in Congress. In the drafting of the Constitution this was included but they did not use the word slaves instead they used all other persons. This leads some to believe that the constitution did not agree with slavery. -
The Three-Fifths Compromise Part2
link2This compromise gave slaveholders benifits they could increase the number of represenitives in the House. Therefore i think that this compromise almost encouraged slavery. People wanted to have more slaves just so that they could have more representation in the house. -
The 1787 Constitutional Convention
link2link1The USA only had the Articles of Confederation at this point. They turned out to be too weak of a structure to run the country on. The Constitutional Convention was to create a new, workable structure. The attendees agreed to work on the Madison's Virginia plan and began to modify it. This is where the Constitution was born. -
The Commerce Compromise
link1The Commerce Compromise was formed to regulate foreign affairs like taxes on imports, but this was not allowed on exports. The northern states wanted the central gov to be in charge of the tax on foreign trade and the south was affraid that this would put an export tax on things like tabacco and rice. So the compromise was formed to stop the fueds between the south and north on tarriffs. -
The Slave Trade Compromise
[link2](www.plainedgeschools.org/jmolinari/slave_trade_compromise.htm)The slave trade compromise was an agreement during the Constitutional Convention of 1787, protecting slaveholders, that forbid Congress the power to act on the slave trade for twenty years. This meant that slaves would be mostly a state power. -
Ratifying the Constitution: The Federalists vs. the Anti-Federalists
link1Ratifying the constitution meaning they are approving the document. The two sides Federalists and Anti-Federalists could not agree on a way to ratify the contitution so there became many debates, arguments, and compromising. The Anti Federalists believed that this document was giving to much power to the government. They also didnt like that there isnt a bill of rights. -
The Federalists vs. the Anti-Federalists Part2
link2Anti-Feds also thought that the executive branch has too much control/power. The Federalists came back with a response to everything the Anti-Feds said. They explained how the power is going to be split amoung three branch all to protect the rights of the people. They also believe that a list of rights is a scary things to do, so they didnt want to list any. In the end the Federalists were more knowledgeable about theird ideas. -
The Constitution goes into effect
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I believe that the most important quote from the constitution is the preamble. Especially the first sentence. "We the people of the United States," It is so important, this country is for the people! Ran by the people, for the people, and provideds for the people.
