Social studies

By Olivialove
  • Jan 1, 1200

    England 1100s-1200s

    monarch rules but noble families gained power. via land in exchange for loyalty, tax money, military support
  • Jan 1, 1215

    Magna Carta 1215

    nobles force king john, who was treating them terribly to sign a document
    -limited power of monarch- no one could be above the law
    - everyone would get equal treatment under the law
    - trial by ones peers
  • Jan 1, 1300

    1300s

    The next king develops a group that represents common people- Parliament

  • 1619 hose of burgesses (VA)

    -1st representatives assembly/legislature in english colonies

  • 1620 mayflower compact

    -established direct democracy

  • 1639 fundamental order in Connecticut

    -1st written constitution in America
    -assembly of elected reps from each town to make laws
    -popular election of governor and judges

  • 1641 Massachusetts body of liberty

    1683 Pennsylvania Frame of government and 1701 PA charter of Privileges
    -establish basis of US constitution and bill of rights
    *Colonists believed egalitarianism- equality part of this was the belief that colonist had al traditional rights of native english people

  • 1688 glorious revolution

    Parliament removes King James III and replaces him with his daughter Mary and her husband William
    -From this time on no ruler would have our power then parliament

  • 1689 English bill of rights

    • further restricted monarchs power - guaranteed free elections and parliament - right to a fair trial - eliminated cruel and unusual punishments

  • English colonies in America 1600s-1700s

    -accept common laws
    -no ruler is above the law
    -should have basic rights protected and a voice in government

  • Mid 1700s

    13 English colonies were established
    -each colony has a governor elected by the colonist or appointed by the king
    -each had a legislature with representatives elected by free adult males

  • Mid 1700s part 3

    colonist are not feeling they had rights of native english people because of taxes and limitations placed they had been self- sufficient, representatives gov't for 100 yrs+ and the colonist said not turning back or stopping now- we'll have to fight for independence

  • John Locke English writer

    -people are born free equal and independent
    -born with natural right to life liberty and property that no government could take away freedom
    -government must maintain social contact
    -people give up part of their freedom in exchange for protection of not right

  • 1754 Albany plan of union

    -1st discussion of colonies for union against british gov't

  • Baron de Montesquieu

    -divide branches of government into different parts to balance each other out so no won can become too strong
    * Locke and Montesquieu mens ideas are cornerstones of the declaration of the independence and constitution

  • Proclamation of 1763

    -can't live on the land west of the appalachian mountains so as not stir up native americans

  • 1765 stamp act

    -tax on all paper goods
    1765 quartering act
    -colonist must provide barracks and supplies to british troops
    1766-day stamp act repeated, established decelerate act- parliament has the right to tax and make decisions for american colonies in all cases

  • 1767 town-shed acts

    -allowed british gov't customs officers to enter anywhere suspected of smuggling( because many colonist were doing this because of taxes and boycotting)

  • 1770 Boston massacre

  • 1773 tea act

    British could ship tea to the colonies without a tax making it cheaper to buy than colonial tea

  • 1773 Boston Tea party

  • 1774 Philidelphia

    first continental congress- write to king gorge III- we demand you restore our rights as British citizens

  • 1775 battle of Lexington and concord

    1st battle of american revolution

  • 1775

    2nd Continental congress meets

  • 1776 Thomas Pain "Common Sense" Published

    moved many undecided colonist toward the belief that independence was the only course of action

  • 1776 Declaration of Independence

    -list of complaints against king
    -beliefs about ind. rights
    pulled from ideas of Locke and Montesquieu

  • Jean Jacque Rousseau

    -wrote the social contract
    -people alone have the right to determine how they should be governed

  • Enlightenment

    -Locke and Montesquieu were enlightenment thinkers
    -believed God had created an orderly universe
    -the laws of the universe could be discovered through the use of human reason
    -laws that governed nature also applied to human life and society