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Jun 15, 1215
Magna Carta
The document was to make peace with the unpopular and the gorup of rebel barons. It promised the protection of church rights, protection for the barons from illegal imprisonment, access to swift justice, and limitations on feudal payments to the Crown, to be implemented through a council of 25 barons.
I think this is important because it accomplished protection. -
french and indian war
The French Indian War was one of a series of wars between the British and French starting as early as the 1600s.
It is important because it was i big fight that had started. -
proclamation 1763
King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.
It was important because it started a border. -
Sugar Act
1764 Act that put a three-cent tax on foreign refined sugar and increased taxes on coffee, indigo, and certain kinds of wine. These taxes affected only a certain part of the population, but the affected merchants were very vocal.It is impotant because it taxed sugar and colonist did not like it. They stood up -
Quartering Act
The Quartering Act of 1765 required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies. If the barracks were too small to house all the soldiers, then localities were to accommodate the soldiers in local inns, livery stables, ale houses, victualling houses, and the houses of sellers of wine.
This important because many people did not want the soldiers coming in and eatting there food and living with there family. -
Formation of sons of liberty
The Sons of Liberty was an organization of American colonists that was created in the Thirteen American Colonies. The secret society was formed to protect the rights of the colonists and to fight taxation by the British government -
Declaratory act
It is an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and the changing and lessening of the Sugar Act.
Its important because the boycotts were hurting the british trade so something had to be done. -
Stamp act
an act of the British Parliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents.
Its importany because it started causeing stamps on everything that could have a stamp on it . -
Townshend acts
Charles Townshend and passed by the English Parliament shortly after the repeal of the Stamp Act. They were designed to collect revenue from the colonists in America by putting customs duties on imports of glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea. -
Tea Act
1773 Act that gave a monopoly on tea sales to the East India Company. In other words, American colonists could buy no tea unless it came from that company.
It is important because htey couldnt buy tea from no where else and colonists saw it as taxation of representation. -
Boston Tea Party
They boarded the ships and threw the chests of tea into Boston Harbor, ruining the tea. The British government responded harshly and the episode escalated into the American Revolution.
This is an important thing in history and ruining a lot of money and amounts of tea. -
Coercive acts
The Coercive Acts are names used to describe a series of laws relating to Britain's colonies in North America, and passed by the British Parliament in 1774. Four of the acts were issued in direct response to the Boston Tea Party of December. -
1st Continental Congress
A meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
Shots heard from around the world
Hundreds of British troops set off from Boston toward Concord, Massachusetts, in order to seize weapons and ammunition stockpiled there by American colonists.The British reached Lexington, where approximately 70 minutemen had gathered on the village green. Someone suddenly fired a shot—it’s uncertain which side—and a melee ensued. -
Bunker hill
during the Siege of Boston in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War. British defeated the Americans at the Battle of Bunker Hill in Massachusetts. It is a very important part of history. It helped them build there cofidence. There were many casulities during this fight. -
The Second Continental Congress
It was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun. -
Publication of Common Sense
written by Thomas Paine, setting forth his arguments in favor of American independence. This was to help people have common sense and be able to think correctly. -
Independence Day
Continental Congress declaring that the thirteen American colonies regarded themselves as a new nation, the United States of America, and no longer part of the British Empire.
It is important because it is the declaration of Independence -
Battle of Saratoga
The Battles of Saratoga marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War. -
valley forge
Forge was the military camp in southeastern Pennsylvania, approximately 20 miles northwest of Philadelphia, where the American Continental Army spent the winter of 1777–1778 during the American Revolutionary War. -
Constitution
the supreme law of the United States of America.[1] The Constitution, originally comprising seven articles, delineates the national frame of government.
It is important to our state and our country. The constition is a big part of our government and us as a whole. -
Federalist Papers
A series of eighty-five essays urging the citizens of New York to ratify the new United States Constitution. Written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, the essays originally appeared anonymously in New York newspapers in 1787 and 1788 under the pen name "Publius." -
The Great Compromise
One of the most important compromises reached during the drafting of the United States Constitution in 1787, the delegates were trying to figure out how each state would be represented in Congress. -
Articles of Confederations
The original constitution of the US, ratified in 1781, which was replaced by the US Constitution in 1789. There are seven articles and they are very important to know and understand. -
Boston Massacre
A street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry. It was very important because it caised alot of deaths and casualities. I t was full of blood and deaths.
