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Jun 15, 1215
Magna Carta Libertatum
Legal document that was written to help shape medieval Englands government. Established that the King was not above the law. Picture: John of England signs Magna Carta -
Jamestown settled
The first successful English settlement on the mainland of North America. Jamestown was founded for the purposes of a quick profit from gold mining for its investors while also establishing a permanent foothold in North America for England. -
Mayflower Compact written
Was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was in a social contract in which the settlers consented to follow the compact's rules and regulations for the sake of survival. -
Petition of Right
This petition stated several fundamental principles of the English constitution. Picture: King Charles I -
English Bill of Rights
It enumerates certain rights to which subjects and permanent residents of a constitutional monarchy were thought to be entitled in the late 17th century. It set certain constitutional requirements of the Crown to seek the consent of the people, as represented in parliament. -
American Revolution
the political upheaval during the last half of the 18th century in which thirteen colonies in North America joined together to break free from the British Empire, combining to become the United States of America. They rejected the rule of the British. Picture: Burning of the Gaspee -
Albany Plan of Union
Plan proposed by Benjamin Franklin to unify the colonies. -
Stamp Act
A law enacted by government that requires a tax to be paid on the transfer of certain documents. It was considered unfair and was soon repealed. -
Boston Massacre
street fight that occurred between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed. -
Boston Tea Party
Act against the British government after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain. believed that it violated their right to be taxed only by their own elected representatives. -
Intolerable Acts
Five laws passed by the British Parliament relating to Britain's colonies in North America. The acts triggered outrage and resistance in the Thirteen Colonies. -
First Continental Congress
Convention of delegates from twelve of the thirteen North American colonies. The representatives gathered to discuss their response to the British "Intolerable Acts." -
Second Continental Congress
Convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies. Managed the colonial war effort, raising armies, directing strategy, appointing diplomats, and making formal treaties. -
Declaration of Independence
Announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were now independent states, The Declaration justified the independence of the United States by listing colonial grievances against King George III, and by asserting certain natural rights, including a right of revolution. -
Articles of Confederation
First constitution of the United States of America and specified how the national government was to operate. Picture: Page 1 of the Articles of Confederation -
Shay's Rebellion
Was an armed uprising in central and western Massachusetts. Most of Shays' compatriots were poor farmers angered by crushing debt and taxes -
Connecticut Cpmpromise
Was an agreement between large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787.It proposed a bicameral legislature, resulting in the current United States Senate and House of Representatives. -
Philadelphia Convention
Address problems in governing the United States of America, which had been operating under the Articles of Confederation following independence from Great Britain. -
Consititution Convection
Address problems in governing the United States of America, which had been operating under the Articles of Confederation following independence from Great Britain.It was intended only to revise the Articles of Confederation
