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Magna Carta
The Magna Carta is an English Charter from King John to proclain certain liberties. Example is no freeman can be punished besides the law of the land. -
Jamestown
It is the first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States of America,following several earlier failed attempts including the Lost Colony of Roanoke. It was founded by the London Company headquartered in England -
Mayflower Compact Written
Was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by the colonists later together known to history as the Pilgrims who crossed the Atlantic aboard the Mayflower. Almost half of the colonists were part of a separatist group seeking the freedom to practice Christianity according to their own determination and not the will of the English Church. -
Petition of Right
Parliament passed the Petition of Right in 1628 in response to a number of perceived violations of the law by Charles I in the first years of his reign. In 1626,Charles had convened Parliament in an effort to obtain desperately needed funds for the continuation of his unsuccessful war with Spain -
English Bill of Rights
December 16 1689 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 the Union
Plan proposed by Benjamin Franklin to unite the colnies to one nation. -
Stamp Act
Stamp Act 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 stam -
Boston Massacre
Also known as the Boston riot was an incident that led to the deaths of five civilians at the hands of the British the legal aftermath of which helped spark the rebellion in some of the British American colonies which culminated in the American Revolutionary War. -
Boston Tea Party
After officials in 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
The Intolerable Acts or the Coercive Acts are names used to describe a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 relating to Britain's colonies in North America. The acts triggered outrage and resistance in the Thirteen Colonies that later became the United States, and were important developments in the growth of the American Revolution -
First Continental Congress
Was a convention of delegates from twelve of the thirteen North American colonies that met at Carpenters Hall in Philadelphia Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. It was called in response to the passage of the Coercive Acts (also known as Intolerable Acts by the Colonial Americans) by the British Parliament. The Intolerable Acts had punished Boston for the Boston Tea Party. -
American Revolution
War between the 13 colonies and Great Britian 3 primary resons being The Stamp Act of 1765, the Declaratory Act of 1766, The Townshend Taxes of 1667. -
Second Continental Congress
Was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies in Philadelphia Pennsylvania soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun The second Congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 -
Declaration of Independence
Declaration Of Independence July 4 1776 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. Written primarily by Thomas Jefferson the Declaration is a formal explanation of why Congress had voted on July 2 to declare independence from Great Britain -
Articles of Confederation
Was the first constitution of the US and specified how federal government was to be opperated including the official name for the new nation United States of America -
Shay's Rebellion
Shay's Rebellion was an armed uprising in central and western Massachusetts mainly Springfield. The rebellion is named after Daniel Shays, a veteran of the American Revolutionary war -
Philadelphia Convention
Philadelphia Convention May 25 to September 17 1787 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania to address problems in governing the United States of America which had been operating under the Articles of Confederation The result of the Convention was the United States Constitution placing the Convention among the most significant events in the history of the United States -
Connecticut Compromise
Connecticut Compromise-May 29 1787 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. It proposed a bicameral legislature, resulting in the current United States Senate and House of Representatives. -
Constitutional Convention
Constitutional Convention May 25 to September 17 1787 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania to address problems in governing the United States of America which had been operating under the Articles of Confederation The result of the Convention was the United States Constitution placing the Convention among the most significant events in the history of the United States
