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Magna CartaWhen: 1215
Who: English
Where: England
Significance: First document limiting powers of the king.

JamestownWhen: 1607
Who: English
Where: Virginia
Significance: First successful colony
in North America

House of Burgesses When: 1919
Where: North America
Significance: First representative
assembly

Mayflower CompactWhen: 1620
Who: Men on the Mayflower
Where: Agreement established
by men on the mayflower which
called for good laws and self
government

New England ColonyMassachusetts Bay Colony,
the Connecticut Colony,
the Colony of Rhode Island,
Providence Plantations,
and the Province of New Hampshire.

South Carolina,
North Carolina,
Maryland,
Virginia and Georgia.

Southern Colonies

Middle ColoniesNew Jersey,
Pennsylvania,
New York and Delaware.

French and Indian WarWhen: 1754 - 1763
Who: French, British, and
Native American
Where: North America
Significance: Conflict in North America
that was part of the world wide
struggle between France and Britain

Treaty of Paris (1763)
When: 1763
Who: French, British
Where: North America
Significance: Ended French
and Indian War.

Proclamation of 1763When: 1793
Who: British
Where: Britain
Significance: Britain prohibited it's
American Colonists from settling
west of the Appalachian Mountains

Sugar ActWhen: 1764
Who: Parliament
Where: Britain
Significance: Put tax on sugar,
molasses, and other sweet foods

Quartering ActWhen: 1765
Who: Parliament
Where: Britain
Significance: Required colonists to
house British soldiers

Stamp ActWhen: 1765
Who: Parliament
Where: Britain
Significance: Law that required
documents to have a stamp showing
tax had been paid.

Townshend ActWhen: 1765 - 1768
Who: Parliament
Where: Britain
Significance: Laws that suspended
New York's assembly and
established taxed goods

Boston MassacreWhen: 1770
Who: British Soldiers and Boston
Colonists
Where: Boston
Significance: Clash between soldiers
and colonists resulting in five deaths

Boston Tea PartyWhen: 1773
Who: Boston Colonists
Where: Boston Harbor
Significance: 342 chests of tea dumped
into the harbor as a protest to the
British

Intolerable ActsWhen: 1774
Who: Parliament
Where: Britain
Significance: Laws made by Parliament
to punish the colonists for the
Boston Tea Party

Lexington and ConcordWhen: 1775
Where: Massachusetts
Significance: Sites of the
first battle of the
American Revolution

Declaration of IndependenceWhen: 1776
Who: Colonists
Where: North America
Significance: Document in which
colonists declared independence

Battle of SaratogaWhen: 1777
Who: British Soldiers and Continental
Army
Where: Hudson River in New York, State.
Significance: Suggested the United
States might win the war