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Magna Carta
Also called Magna Carta Libertatum or The Great Charter of the Liberties of England is an angevin charter orginally issued in latin in year 1215. Barons forced King John to sign it. -
Petition of Rights
A major English constitutional document that sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing. It limited the king's power in several ways. -
English Bill of Rights
It is an Act of the Parliament of England. It was a restatement in statuatory form of the declaration of right presented by the covention parliament to william and mary. -
Albany Plan of Union
It is a proposed that a humble application be made for an act of Parliament of Great Britain. Benjamin Franklin created it. -
Boston Tea Party
It was a political protest by the sons of liberty in boston city in the british colony of massachusetts against the tax policy of the british governmet -
Boston Massacre
It was orginally called the Incident on King Street by the British. British Army soldiers killed five civilian men and injured six others. -
First Continental Congress
This is when they met and tried to go against England. The parliament passed this set of laws to punish the colonists for the troubles in Boston. -
Second Continental Congress
It was a convention of delegates from the 12 colonies. It started soon after warfare in American Revolutionary War had begun. -
Declaration of Independence
Statement adopted by the Contential Congress wich announced that the 13 colonies then at war with Great Britain, regarding themselves as independent states. -
Articles of Confederation
It was an agreement amond the 13 founding states that established the USA as a confederation of soverign states and served as its first constitution. 5 men were involved in the making of it. -
Shay's Rebellion
It was an armed uprising that took place in central and western Massachusetts. Some people believe that it changed the U.S. immensely. -
New Jersey Plan
Known as the Small State Plan and was a proposal for the structure of the US government presented by William Patterson. The plan would add closely limited powers to tax and regulate trade. -
Philadelphia Convention
It was to address problems in governing the USA which had been operating under Articles of Confederation following independence from Great Britain. Wanted to separate the three types of government (legislative, judicial, and exectutive) -
Virgina Plan
Also known as the Randolph Plan after its sponser or the Large state plan was a proposal by virginia delegates for a bicameral legislative branch
