What Led to This - Period 4/5 - kwongj kiryashovd

By CNBoice
  • Jan 1, 1215

    Magna Carta is signed

    Magna Carta Info
    This document took power from the king and gave it to the lords.
    The Magna Carta was signed by King John specifically on June 15, 1215 in a meadow at Runnymede in Egham, Surrey, South England ( between Windsor and Staines). It is also reffered to as the Magna Charter or the Great Charter.
  • Jan 1, 1400

    Between 1-2 million Native Americans live in the ten major cultural regions north of Mexico

    Some of these major cultural regions include the Great Basin and the Eastern Woodlands.

  • 1st permanent English colony established in Americxa

    The name of the group of merchants that formed the colony of Virginia were the London Company.

  • African slaves first brought to America (Jamestown, Virginia)

    The slaves were brought there to work on sugar plantations.

  • Mayflower Compact signed

    The prupose of the document was to describe the way they'd govern themselves in the New World.

  • 1st Thanksgiving celebrated by the Pilgrims and the Indians

  • America's 1st law guaranteeing religious liberty is passed

    This law was called the Act Concerning Religion.

  • English take control of the New Netherland settlement

    The colony was later renamed New York.

  • a fear of witchcraft begins (Salem, Massachusetts)

  • there are enslaved Africans living in every colony

  • First Great Awakening begins

    This movement started by people who had lost their religion.

  • all 13 British colonies in North America established

  • King George III crowned

  • Townshend Acts passed

    This law required a tax on certain imported items.

  • Prime Minister George Grenville proposes the Stamp Act

    This law required the colonists to buy a stamp for every piece of paper they bought.

  • Quartering Act passed

    This law ordered the assemblies to provide British troops with money and a place to live.

  • Paul Revere warns colonists of incoming British

  • First Continental Congress

  • Parliament passes the Intolerable Acts

  • Revolutionary War begins

  • Common Sense published

    Thomas Paine is the author of this pamphlet.

  • Second Continental Congress first meets

  • delegates sign Declaration of Independance

  • British surrender to American troops

    [
    The Alliance between America and France](http://www.historyisfun.org/the-french-alliance.htm)
    France had become an ally of America during this war.
    The two treaties of alliances were signed between the two: the "Treat of Alliance" and a treaty of "Amity and Commerce".

  • Treaty of Paris is signed

    [Treaty of Paris Info](http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=6)
    This treaty made Britain agree to recognize America as an independent country. It also dropped all boundaries, allowing America to expand westward.
    The treaty is named after the city it was signed in, and there are three original copies that were signed.