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Magna Carta
Was the first document forced onto an English King by a group of his subjects in an attempt to limit his powers by law and protect their privileges. -
Jamestown settled
It is the first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States of America. It was founded by the London Company. -
Mayflower Compact written
The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by the colonists and signed on November 11, 1620 by 41 of the ship's more than one hundred passengers. -
Petition of Right
A major English constitutional document that sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing. -
English Bill of Rights
The Bill of Rights 1689 is largely a statement of certain positive rights that its authors considered that citizens and/or residents of a free and democratic society ought to have. -
Albany Plan of Union
English officials suggested a union between Royal and Charter Governments. In June 1754 delegates from most northern colonies and representatives from six Iroquois nations met in Albany, New York. There they adopted a "plan of union" drafted by Benjamin Franklin. Under this plan each colonial legislature would elect delegates to an American continental assembly presided over by a royal governor. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act of 1765 was a direct tax imposed by the British Parliament specifically on the colonies of British America. The act required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London. These printed materials were legal documents, magazines, newspapers and many other types of paper used throughout the colonies. -
Boston Massacre
The presencee of many British military in Boston led to riots and the British shooting their guns killing five civilians. -
Boston Tea Party
after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists, disgused as indians, boarded the ships and threw the tea into the harbor. -
Intolerable Acts
are a series of five laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774, causing outrage and resentment in the colonies. -
First Continental Congress
A convention of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. Called in response to the passage of the Coercive Acts by the British Parliament. -
American Revolution begins
The American Revolution was the political upheaval during the last half of the 18th century, where thirteen colonies joined together to break free from British rule. -
Second Continental Congress
was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that met beginning on May 10, 1775, The second Congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence. -
Declaration of Independence
announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were now independent states -
Articles of Confederation
the first constitution of the United States of America and specified how the national government was to operate -
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Shay's Rebellion
a series of attacks on courthouses by a small band of farmers. They attempted to prevent the courts from seizing property from indebted farmers by forcing the closure of courts in western Massachusetts. -
Connecticut Compromise
an agreement that settled the dispute between the New Jersey Plan and Virginia Plan. It resulted in both a Senate and House of Representatives. -
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Constitutional Convention
Held for the purpose of addressing problems in governing the United States of America, They wanted to create a new government rather than fix the existing one. Also known as the Philadelphia Convention -
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Philadelphia Convention
Held for the purpose of addressing problems in governing the United States of America, They wanted to create a new government rather than fix the existing one. Also known as the Constitutional convention
