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Magna Carta
The 1215 Charter required King John of England to proclaim certain liberties, and accept that his will was not arbitrary, -
Petition of right
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. -
English bill of rights
It lays down limits on the powers of sovereign and sets out the rights of Parliament and rules for freedom of speech in Parliament, the requirement to regular elections to Parliament and the right to petition the monarch without fear of retribution. -
Albany Plan of union
Under this plan each colonial legislature would elect delegates to an American continental assembly presided over by a royal governor. -
American Revolution Begins
The war between Britan and the collonies for independance. The collonies won the war, thus creating the United states of America. -
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 and carrying an embossed revenue stamp -
Boston Massacre
The people where tired of the heavy millitary pressance in Boston. Fights broke out between civilians and British solders. 5 civillians were killed. -
Boston tea party
Officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain. The people where tired of being taxed to death ,so a group of colonists dressed as indians, boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor. -
Intolerable acts
The Intolerable Acts where a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 relating to Britain's colonies in North America. The acts caused outrage and resistance in the Thirteen Colonies, and were important developments in the growth of the American Revolution. -
First Continental congress
The First Continental Congress met in Philadelphia's Carpenters Hall on September 5, 1774. The idea of such a meeting was advanced a year earlier by Benjamin Franklin, but failed to gain much support until after the Port of Boston was closed in response to the Boston Tea Party. -
second contenental congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that met beginning on May 10, 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun -
Declaration of indepandance
The United States Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, now known as independence day. The document anounced that the thirteen American colonies were now independent states, and thus no longer a part of the British Empire. -
Articles of Confederation
was the first constitution of the United States and specified how the Federal government was to operate, including adoption of an official name for the new nation, United States of America. -
Shay's rebellion
Shays' Rebellion was an armed uprising in central and western Massachusetts. The rebellion is named after Daniel Shays, a veteran of the American Revolutionary war. -
Connecticut Compromise
The Connecticut Compromise, was an agreement between large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787.It defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States Constitution. -
Philadelphia Convention
The Philadelphia Convention, now often referred to as the Constitutional Convention, was a meeting held in 1787 by delegates from the 13 states that then comprised the United States. At first, the purpose of the convention was to address the problems the federal government was having ruling the states and staying fiscally sound -
Constitution convention
A constitutional convention is a gathering for the purpose of writing a new constitution or revising an existing constitution.
