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One of the most famous documents in the world. Issued by King John of England as a solution to the political crisis he faced in 1215
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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, along with the Magna Carta and the Petition of Right. The English Bill of Rights limited the power of the English
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was a proposal to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies, suggested by Benjamin Franklin
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a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers
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a group of colonists protest thirteen years of increasing British oppression, by attacking merchant ships in Boston Harbor
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a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution
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a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun.
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announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire.
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the original constitution of the US, made in 1781, and was replaced by the US Constitution in 1789
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an armed uprising that took place in Massachusetts (mostly around Springfield) during 1786 and 1787
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delegates from five states called for a constitutional convention in order to discuss possible improvements to the Articles of Confederation
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was a proposal by Virginia delegates for a bicameral legislative branch. The plan was drafted by James Madison while he waited for a quorum to assemble at the Constitutional Convention of 1787.
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a proposal for the structure of the United States Government presented by William Paterson at the Constitutional Convention on June 15, 1787.
