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Period: Oct 5, 1200 to
timeline
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English Bill of Rights
An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown. -
Albany Plan of Union
Albany Plan of Union. 10 July 1754 Franklin Papers 5:387--92. Plan of a Proposed Union of the Several Colonies of Masachusets-bay, New Hampshire, -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers -
Boston Tea Party
selling black market items -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from twelve of the thirteen North American colonies that met on September 5, 1774 -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that met beginning on May 10, 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -
Declaration of Independence
The United States Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on 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 -
Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation was the first constitution of the United States of America and specified how the national government was to operate -
Virginia Plan
The Virginia Plan proposed that each state would be represented in proportion to their free inhabitants -
New Jersey Plan
It called for equal representation in congress from all states, regardless of population.
