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Jan 28, 1215
Magna Carta
A carter used by king John to make peace between the unpopular King and a group of rebel barons, it promised the protection of church rights, protection for the barons from illegal imprisonment, access to swift justice, and limitations on feudal payments to the Crown, to be implemented through a council of 25 barons -
English Bill of Rights
An English precursor of the Constitution, along with the Magna Carta and the Petition of Right. -
Albany Plan of Union
A proposal to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies. -
Boston Massacre
A street fight between a patriot mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. -
Boston Tea Party
A group of colonists protest thirteen years of increasing British oppression, by attacking merchant ships in Boston Harbor. -
First Continental Congress
A meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies. -
Second Continental Congress
A convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun. -
Articles of Confederation
The first constitution of the United States. -
Shays Rebellion
An armed uprising that took place in Massachusetts,which some historians believe "fundamentally altered the course of United States' history." -
Virginia Plan
A proposal by Virginia delegates for a bicameral legislative branch.
