US Government Timeline KP

  • Magna Carta
    1215

    Magna Carta

    when he king of England was forced to sign a document that put him and everyone below the law
  • mayflower compact

    mayflower compact

    a paper signed by 41 male occupants on the mayflower before they left the mayflower to start Plymouth VA
  • begin revolutionary war

    the revolutionary war was a war between the united states of America against the British empire America won in the end
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

    when Thomas Jefferson declared America a independent country
  • end of revolutionary war

    after 8 years of battle America won after British surrendered
  • US constitution

    The U.S. Constitution was drafted in 1787 at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia to replace the weak Articles of Confederation with a stronger federal government