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Jun 15, 1215
Signing of the Magna Carta
--Promised the protection of church rights
--Limitation of Feudal payments
--Protected barons from illgeal imprisonments
--Created the limited government system that the United States use in present time
--THe signing was located in Runnymede -
First Colony was founded
--Founded under a patent issued from the Parliment
--First colony to stay
--Started the beginning of the 13 colonies which slowy turns into a independent country call United States of America and its constitution and government
--Located in Virginia -
Signing of the Petition of Right
--The signing was located in London
--Created restrictions on non-Parliment taxing, martial law, and imprisonment without cause
--The U.S. constitution uses ideas from the Petition of Right to protect the citizens and give them civil rights -
Implementation of the English Bill of Rights
--Stated that the pretending powers of dispesing laws is illegal
--Election of members for Parliment is free and all grants and promises of fines are illgeal and created seperation of powers
--The U.S adpoted some these ideas to use in the U.S constitution to further improve civil rights for citizens of the United States of America and adopted seperation of powers
--Located in London -
Last Colony was founded
--The last colony was located in Georgia
--Served as place debtors could go to start a new life
--Used as a barrier against Spanish invasion
--Was the last colony of the 13 colonies and slowly became one of the supporters for the US government -
Albany Plan of Union
--Proposed by Benjamin Franklin
-- Used to create a unified government
-- Connects to U.S government because this plan called for a general government to be administered by a President General
--Located in Albany, New York -
George III comes to throne
--Reigned and lived longer than any previous British ruler
--Suffered from a mental illness
--This ties into the U.S government because this starts the events that leads to the U.S government forming
--Located in London -
Stamp Act goes into affect
--Had to be paid in valid British money
--Direct tax on colonies
-- Lead to the American revolution due to the high taxes and lead to the development of the U.S constitution and government
-- Located in London/America -
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Stamp Act congress convenes
--First gathering of elected representatives
--Devised a unified protest against the Stamp Act
--Located in New York
-- The first meeting on the U.S congress -
Boston Massacre
--British killed five men and injured six others
--Two soldiers were convicted of manslaughter
-- Located in Boston
-- Caused a upset resulting in a independence from the British -
BostonTea Party
--Located in Boston
--Devised to defy the Tea Act
--Pushed the two sides closer to war
--Fowarded the progress into which the U.S government was being formed as well as the U.S constitution -
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First Continental Congress
--Considered an economic boycott against the British
--Located in Philedelphia
--Developed a reasonable soultion for all difficulties
--One of the many congress meetings of the U.S government -
Start of the American Revolution "The Shot Heard Round the World"
--137 american minute men took part in the battle of Lexington and Concord
--Ten americans died and ten were wounded
--This is the beginning of the U.S government sprouting and growing into its own independent country and have its own constitution
--Located at the Battle of Lexington and Concord -
Second Continental Congress meets
--Managed the colonial war effort
--Located in Philedelphia
--Adopted the U.S Decleration of Independence
--Congress meeting that made the U.S government independent from the British government -
Signing of the Declaration of Independence
-- Thomas Jefferson wrote the original draft
-- Declared independence from Great Britain
-- Important to the U.S government because this was the base of it -
Articles of Confederation
--Was not ratified until March 1, 1781
-- Had the power to wage wars
-- Located in York
-- Was an idea until the U.S constitution was made -
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Shay's Rebellion
--Economic depression
--High taxes threatened farmers
--Located in Massachusetts
-- Gave the U.S government ideas on how improve the government even better -
The Great Compromise of 1787
--Centered around how many representatives each state could have
--Located in Philedelphia
--Agreed on Sherman's Plans
--Made the building blocks for U.S congress -
U.S constitution ratified
--Became the supreme law
--Introduced seperation of powers
--Located in Philedelphia
--U.S constitution further developed the U.S government which also included a president -
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New Congress meets
-- Located in New York/ Philedelphia
--Compromise of 1790
-- Department of War and Treasury created
--Developed the House of Representatives and the Senate for the U.S government -
George Washington inaugurated
--Located in New York
--Took the Oath of Office
--Took several days to get to the Federal Hall
--This was the first president of the U.S and also the first person to be in the executive branch -
Last state ratifies U.S constitution
--Located in Rhode Island
--Madison stated that the Bill of Rights were needed
--Rhode Island faced the threat of being treated as a foreign government
--Offically stated the U.S constitution as the supreme law in the U.S -
Temporary Capitol is chosen
--Located in New York
--Old city hall was redesigned
--sparked many debates
--Was the first captial city of the U.S government and where they held their meetings
