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is an Angevin charter originally issued in Latin in the year 1215. Also known as Magna Carta Libertatum.
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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 Act of the Parliament of England passed on 16 December 1689. It was presented in 1689
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was the killing of five colonists by British regulars on March 5, 1770. It wasnt really a massacre.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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it was the first constitution of the United States, on November 15, 1777. Albany is in New York.
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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.
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took place from May 25 to September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. To address problems in governing the United States of America
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it was a proposal for the structure of the United States Government. Presented by William Paterson at the Constitutional Convention.
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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.
