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Jun 15, 1215
The Signing of the Magna Carta
The Magna Carta was a document signed by King John to limit the power he held as king. -
Mayflower Compact signed
The Mayflower Compact was a temporary form of a government for the pilgrims who settled in New England. -
Formation of the New England Confederation
This was the gathering that made the idea of New England (separate from Britain) official. -
Albany Plan of Union announced
The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government. -
Articles of Confederation signed
This was the old government that was soon changed after established. -
Northwest Ordinance of 1778
The Northwest Ordinance, chartered a government for the Northwest Territory, provided a method for admitting new states to the Union from the territory, and listed a bill of rights guaranteed in the territory. -
Treaty of Paris (1783) signed
This treaty between the American colonies and Great Britain, ended the American Revolution and formally named the United States as an independent nation. -
Newburgh Conspiracy
The boycott of President George Washington's commands because the army was growing restless. -
Spain closes Mississippi River
They closed the lower Mississippi River off to the Americans whose western farmers relied on it to ship their goods to market because it was easier and less expensive to transport it by sea than it was to transport it by land. -
Land Ordinance of 1785
Law passed by Congress that allowed for sales of land in the Northwest Territory and set up standards for land sale that became precedents. Among them was the idea of selling mile-square sections of land. -
Ordinance of Religious Freedom
The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom is a statement about both freedom of conscience and the principle of separation of church and state. -
Shay's Rebellion
Shays' Rebellion was an armed uprising and was named after Daniel Shays, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War and one of the rebel leaders. -
Annapolis Connvention
The Annapolis Convention was a meeting at Annapolis, Maryland of 12 delegates that called for a constitutional convention. -
Constitutional Convention Opens
This is basically the framing of our Federal Constitution
