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Magna Carta
Magna Carta was the first document forced onto an English King by a group of his subjects, the feudal barons, in an attempt to limit his powers by law and protect their privileges. -
Jamestown Settled
was the first successful English settlement on the mainland of North America.[1] Named for King James I of England, Jamestown was founded in the Colony of Virginia -
Mayflower Compact written
written agreement composed by a consensus of the new Settlers arriving at New Plymouth,written by the colonists, later together known to history as the Pilgrims, who crossed the Atlantic aboard the Mayflower. -
Petition of Right
English constitutional document that sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing. -
English Bill of Rights
It was a re-statement in statutory form of the Declaration of Right presented by the Convention Parliament to William and Mary in March 1689, inviting them to become joint sovereigns of England -
Albany Plan of Union
The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government. -
Stamp Act
purpose was to raise £60,000 yearly in the colonies in order to help support the cost of maintaining British troops there, a cost totaling £350,000 annually. -
Boston Tea Party
Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor -
Intolerable Acts
Series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 relating to Britain's colonies in North America. -
First Continental Congress
a convention of delegates from twelve of the thirteen North American colonies that met at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -
Second Continental Congress
a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun. -
American Revolution Begins
the political upheaval during the last half of the 18th century in which thirteen colonies in North America joined together to break free from the British Empire, combining to become the United States of America. -
Declaration of Independence
which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were now independent states, and thus no longer a part of the British Empire. -
Philadelphia Covention
took place from May 25 to September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to address problems in governing the United States of America -
Connecticut Compromise
was an agreement between large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States Constitution. -
Constitution Convection
The State House in Philadelphia, the same location where the Declaration of Independence had been signed 11 years earlier. -
Shay's Rebellion
over one thousand Shaysites had been arrested. A militia that had been raised as a private army defeated an attack on the federal Springfield Armory by the main Shaysite force on February 3, 1787, and four rebels were killed in the action. -
Articles of Confederation
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.
