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Period: Sep 3, 1200 to
chapter 2 timeline
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Sep 5, 1215
Magna Carta
is an Angevin charter originally issued in Latin in the year 1215. Also known as Magna Carta Libertatum. -
Petition of Right
a major English constitutional document that sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing.
It was passed on 7 June of 1628. -
English Bill of Rights
an Act of the Parliament of England passed on 16 December 1689. It was presented in 1689 -
Boston Massacre
was the killing of five colonists by British regulars on March 5, 1770. It wasnt really a massacre. -
Boston Tea Party
a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, against the tax policy of the British government and the East India Company that controlled all the tea imported into the colonies. December 16, 1773 -
First Continental Congress
was a convention of delegates from twelve colonies that met on September 5, 1774. At Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
Second Continental Congress
a convention of delegates from the thirteen colonies that started meeting on May 10, 1775. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun. -
Articles of Confederation
it was formally the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union. It was an agreement to the 13 founding states that established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and was its first constitution -
Declaration of Independence
a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, the 13 American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer apart of the British Empire. They would become a new nation: the United States of America. -
Albany Plan of Union
it was the first constitution of the United States, on November 15, 1777. Albany is in New York. -
Shay's Rebellion
an armed uprising that took place in central- western Massachusetts in 1786 and 1787. The rebellion was named after Daniel Shays, one of the rebel leaders. -
Philadelphia Convention
took place from May 25 to September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. To address problems in governing the United States of America -
New Jersey Plan
it was a proposal for the structure of the United States Government. Presented by William Paterson at the Constitutional Convention. -
Virginia Plan
a proposal by Virginia delegates for a bicameral legislative branch.The plan was drafted by James Madison, he waited for a quorum to assemble at the Constitutional Convention of 1787.
