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1500 BCE
Moses & The Ten Commandments
Moses & The ten commandments was inspiring to the construction of the Early Americas -
600 BCE
Old Testament
The basic formation of their laws and government. -
100
New Testament
New Laws added with a bigger, better government. Made the Limited Government and Representative Government. -
1215
Magna Carta
The Magna Carta was the first time a Nation's/Country's people rebelled against its King. -
Mayflower Compact
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Constitution of Connecticut
Connecticut made their own custom Constitution. -
English Bill of Rights
Removal of King James II in 1688. The parliament passed the Bill of Rights, limiting the Monarch's power, making the Most need pariliment's consent, and keep them from controlling armies. -
House of Lords/House of Commons
Pariliment made to houses representing the common folk and higher political powers. -
The Enlightenment
The Enlightenment was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 18th century, the "Century of Philosophy". -
French and Indian War
The French and Indian War pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France, each side supported by military units from the parent country and by American Indian allies. -
The Stamp Act
The Stamp Act of 1765 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain that imposed a direct tax on the British colonies and plantations in America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp. -
English Common Law
The Importance of Precedent. In a common law system, judges are obliged to make their rulings as consistent as reasonably possible with previous judicial decisions on the same subject. The Constitution accepted most of the English common law as the starting point for American law. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773. -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies who met from September 5 to October 26, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the spring of 1775 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It succeeded the First Continental Congress, which met in Philadelphia between September 5, 1774, and October 26, 1774. -
Colonial Governments
Each of the thirteen colonies had a charter, or written agreement between the colony and the king of England or Parliament. Charters of royal colonies provided for direct rule by the king. A colonial legislature was elected by property holding males. -
Declaration of Independence
The United States Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 4, 1776