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The Magna Carta is a charter agreed by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215.[a] First drafted by the Archbishop of Canterbury to make peace between the unpopular King and a group of rebel barons, it promised the protection of church rights, protection for the barons
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The Petition of Right is a major English constitutional document that sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing.
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An English precursor of the constitution. It limited the power of the English and was written as an act of parlament.
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A proposal to create a unified governtment. It was tfor the 13 colonies and was proposed by Ben Franklin.
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The killing of 5 colonists by the British.it turned into a street fight and a mob from the colonists and the British.
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Colonists attack merchant ships in the Boston harbor. But after the British closed the port.
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Meeting of 12 of the 13 colonies. They met in Carpenters hall.
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Convention of delegates form the 13 colonies. Became the second continentla congress when they started meeting.
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The fundamental document establishing the United States as a nation, adopted on July 4, 1776. The declaration was ordered and approved by the Continental Congress and written largely by Thomas Jefferson.
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The first constitution the United States adopted.It was signed by all 13 colonies.
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An armed uprising that took place in Massechusettes. It started because of the high taxes on farms and farmers.
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Proposal by virginia delegates to make a legislative branch in the government. it was drafted by James Madison.
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The gathering that drafted the Constitution of the United States in 1787. All states were invited to send delegates.
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The New Jersey Plan (also widely known as the Small State Plan or the Paterson Plan) was a proposal for the structure of the United States Government presented by William Paterson.
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Abraham lincoln got assassinated at fords theatre while watching a play. John wilkes booth is the one who shot him
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A war fought from 1914 to 1918 between the Allies, notably Britain, France, Russia, and Italy (which entered in 1915), and the Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire.
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A war fought from 1939 to 1945 between the Axis powers — Germany, Italy, and Japan — and the Allies, including France and Britain, and later the Soviet Union and the United States.
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A Cold War conflict pitting the U.S. and the remnants of the French colonial government in South Vietnam against the indigenous but communist Vietnamese independence movement.
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The first african american elected to be the president of united states.
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The first ten amendments to the US Constitution, ratified in 1791 and guaranteeing such rights as the freedoms of speech, assembly, and worship.
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