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Period: Jan 1, 1200 to
History
History through out the years. -
Jan 1, 1215
Magna Carta
It is known as the Great Charter. The Magna Carta included guarantees of simple rights like trail by jury and protection against taking liberty, property or life. A group of barons forced King John to sign this document. -
Petition of Right
The Petition of Right is a major English constitutional document. This document sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing. The English parliament produced this document in the run-up to the English Civil War. -
English Bill of Rights
English Bill of Rights: 1689- This bill was drawn up to prevent abuse of power by Mary and Willliam and all future monarchs. The Monarch(s) had to sign it. This bill prohibited a standing army in peacetime, rights to be trail by jury and required that all parliamentary elections be free. -
The New Jersey Plan
Paterson and his colleagues offered the New Jersey Plan to add to the Virginia Plan This plan added powers that would limited to the three branches and the powers to tax and regulate trade between states. -
Albany Plan of Union
The Albany Plan of Union was created to help the problems of colonial trade and danger of attacks by the French and Native Americans. The plan created an annual congress of delegates from each 13 colonies. The plan gave them power to raise military and navel forces, keep peace or make war, regulate tax within the trade and collect custom duties. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was an event that lead to the deaths of 5 civilians at the hands of the British troop. This helped spark the rebellion in some of the British American Colonies. It is also known as, ‘Incident on King Street’. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a organized protest against taxes on tea. Boston’s citizens disguised themselves as Indians and raided three British ships. They dumped hundreds of chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. -
First Continental Congress
Delegates from every colony except Georgia met in Philadelphia on September 5, 1774. For two months they discuss the worstening situation and debated plans to fix it. -
Second Continental Congress
The delegates from the First Continental Congress meet once again in Philadelphia in 1775 because British government continued to refuse to compromise. By the time they meet in May. By the time they meet, the “shot ‘round the world” was fired. The Revolution had already begun. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is a bill written with the basic fundamentals laws setting out the principles, and structures and processes of their government. It is made up of four parts; a Preamble, a Declaration of Natural Rights, a list of Grievances, and a Resolution of Independence. -
Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation established a ‘firm league of friendship’ among states. Not all the states accepted this bill within the first year. The last state finally accepted in 1781, when the Second Continental Congress made it effective. -
Shay’ Rebellion
Shay’s Rebellion was an armed uprising in central and western Massachusetts. It was name after Daniel Shays, a veteran of the American Revolution and leader of Shay’s Rebellion. The people rose against the oppressive debt collection and the policies in Massachusetts -
Virginia Plan
Virginia delegates off the first plan for the new constitution. The Virginia Plan called for new government with three separate branches that we use today; the legislative, the executive and the judicial. -
Philadelphia Convention
The Philadelphia Convention is an event that was to address the problems in governing the United States of America. It was also known as the United States Constitutional Convention, the Federal Convention, or the Grand Convention at Philadelphia.
