In the early 1200s, King John tried to give all his power away.

The Magna Carta was writtten to give the King all the power.

The Magna Carta was a big deal because it introduced the concepts of........

The Magna Carta helped create the nation's Parliament.

What was the name of the ship the Pilgrims left England in?

The Mayflower Contract was written to....

The English Bill of Rights demanded

Cato's letters became so popular that they were collected into a book.

A journalist named Thomas Paine published a pamphlet called Common Sense in 1776.

The King of England granted the First Englishmen a Charter giving them permission to set up a colony in America.

The English people had representatives in Parliament who made laws and stood up for peoples' rights.

The colonists signed a compact agreeing to form a majority-rule government where all the men would vote on whatever issues came up.

The stamp act forced colonists to put expensive tax stamps on:

The Declaratory Act says that the colonies were dependent on the King and declaring that all laws passed in the colonies had no effect.

Quartering Acts of 1765 and 1774 forced certain colonists to let British troops live in their houses, but they had to pay rent.

In the 1770s, a series of laws cracked down on rebellious activity in Massachusetts colony

Townshend Revenue taxed things like

On July 4, 1776, the colonies adopted the Declaration of Independence

During the Boston Tea party the colonists snuck onto a cargo ship and drank a lot of tea.