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Magna Carta
King John sighed the Magna Carta in 1215 limiting the powers of the ruler. -
Stamp act
Passed by British parliament and I required all American colonists to pay a tax on every piece of paper they used. -
Tea Act
Passed by british parliament and allowed the British East India Company tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies. -
The Boston Tea party
The colonists started protesting, they refused to buy British goods and they dressed up as Indians and dumped tea into the ocean. -
Intolerable Acts
These were disciplinary laws passed by the British parliament after the Boston Tea Party. They were punishing colonists for protesting the Tea Party. -
Lexington & Concord
First shot of the American Revolution was here. It was the first battle. Primary Source: https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/content-images/04810.jpg -
Declaration of Independence
It is a statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the 13 colonies from the British it explained why we should be free and it listed the complaints we had with King George III. -
Saratoga
This battle brought the French into the war on our side this was the turning point of the American Revolution. We won this battle. -
Yorktown
In the battle of Yorktown the Continental army forces the British to surrender and the American Revolution was over. We then became the United States of America. -
Treaty of Paris
John Jay helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris ending the American Revolution. It was signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the U.S. -
The Constitution
The Continental Congress wrote the U.S. Constitution this document established the basic structure of our government. It made a government in which the people hold the power, they can elect their own representatives. It is divided into 3 parts- the Preamble, the articles, and the Amendments. -
Federalist Papers
This helped convince that the Constitution would work. They are written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay. -
The Bill of Rights
The Bill of Rights comprises of the first 10 amendments of the U.S. Constitution. It granted Americans certain right such as speech, assembly, and worship. -
Marbury v Madison
This case gave the Supreme Court the power of Judicial Review to determine if a law follows the Constitution. This was the first time the Supreme Court declared an act of Congress as unconstitutional. -
Democracy in America
This is a book written by Alexis de Tocqueville he tried to identify how the new Americans were different from the European society that they had come from.
