Timelin Assignment

By AKAZon3
  • Aug 11, 1215

    Magna Carte

    Magna Carte
    *Latin for Great Charter. Also called Magna Carta Libertatum or Great Charter of the Liberties of England
    1.Magna Carte was orginallt issued in Latin the year of 1215
    ll.This was the first document forced onto a king of England
    2.Led to Constitutional Law
    Pg.31 (Magruders American Government Textbook)

  • Mayflower Compact

    Mayflower Compact
    1.First governing documents of Plymouth Colony
    ll.This document was written by the seperatists"Saints" fleeing from religious persecutions of King James of Great Britain
    pg.38(Magruders American Government Textbook)

  • Stamp Act

    Stamp Act
    Imposed a direct tax by the British Parliament specifically on the colonies of British America
    Pg. 38-39(Magruders American Government Textbook)

  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    Also known as the resistance movement agaisnt Britain ruling/taxation
    1.This was the destruction of the Tea in the Boston harbor
    ll.Led by Son of Liberty as a political protest
    2. Boston officials refused to return three shipments of taxed tea to Britain
    Pg.38-39(Magruders American Government Textbook)
    ll. the colonists got onboard the ship and threw the tea overboard in to the harbor

  • Revolutionary War

    Revolutionary War
    Great Britain vs. Thirteen Colonies of America
    1.Result of political American Revolution
    ll.taxation without representation
    lll.Was a consequence from other events such as Boston Tea party in 1173
    Pg.50(Magruders American Government Textbook)

  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence
    Announced that the 13 colonies in America (which at war with Great Britain) regarded themsleves as independent states, and no longer part of the British Empire
    - Thomas Jefferson, the principal author of the Declaration
    Pg.43-45(Magruders American Government Textbook)

  • The Constitution

    The Constitution
    Originally consisted of 7 articles.
    1.10 admendments(known as Bill of Rights)
    ll.Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    lll.it has been amended twenty-seven times
    Pg.31(Magruders American Government Textbook)

  • Bill of Rights

    Bill of Rights
    First 10 adments are on the Constition came from this Bill
    1.Gave certain rights to states and the public(citizens)
    ll.Introduced by James Madison to the 1st U.S. Congress as a series of legislative articles
    lll.Came into effect on December 15th 1791
    Pg.42(Magruders American Government Textbook)