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Jan 30, 1200
Magna Carta
The Magna Carta was a charter signed that limited the powers of the English king & guarenteed certain fundamental rights. The Barons are the one that had come up with it. -
Period: Jan 30, 1200 to
Timeline Events
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Petition of Right
Major English constitution document that sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing -
English Bill of Rights
Prohibited a standing army in peacetime, execpt with the consent of Parliament, and required that all parliamentary elections be free. Also included suck guarantees as the right to a fair trail, as well as freedom from excessive bail and from cruel and unusual punishment. -
Albany Plan of Union
Was a proposal to create unified government for the Thirteen Colonies, suggested by Benjamin Franklin, then a senior leader and a delegate from Pennsylvania, at the Albany Congress. -
Boston Massacre
The killing of 5 colonists by British regulars. It was the culmination of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since royal troops. -
Boston Tea Party
In 1771, a group of colonists protest thirteen years of increasing British oppression, by attacking merchant ships in Boston Harbor. In retaliation, the British close the port, and inflict even harsher penalties. -
First Continental Congress
A meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met on spetember 5 to October17, 1774 at Carpenters Hall. -
Second Continental Congress
A conventional of delegates from the thirteen colonies that sharted meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon agter warfare in the American Revolutionary war had begun. -
Declaration of Independence
Declaration of Independence is at once the nation's most cherished symbol of liberty and Jefferson's most enduring monument. Here, in exalted and unforgettable phrases, Jefferson expressed the convictions in the minds and hearts of the American people. -
Articles of Conferderation
This document served as the United States' first constitution, and was in force from March 1, 1781, until 1789 when the present day Constitution went into effect. -
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Articles of Confederation
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Shay's Rebellion
An armed uprising that took placie in Massachusetts durin g1786 and 1787 which some historians believe fundamentally altered the course of the United States history. -
Virginia Plan
The Virginia Plan (also known as the Randolph Plan, after its sponsor, or the Large-State Plan) was a proposal by Virginia delegates for a bicameral legislative branch. -
Philadelphia Convention
delegates that were prffessional men, with ober half of them lawyers and as such they carried an aura of wealth and power. -
New Jersey Plan
Proposal for the structure of the Untied States Government presented by William Patterson at the Constitutional Convention.
