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Magna Carta
Required King John of England to proclaim certain liberties and accept that his will was not arbitrary -
Jamestown Settled
The first successful English settlement on the main land of North America. Was a colony in Virginia -
Mayflower Compact Written
The first governing document of the Plymouth Colony. Was signed on November 11, 1620 -
Petition of Right
Set out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from commiting an infraction of transgress -
English Bill of Rights
An act of Parliament of England, was a restatement in permitted form of the Declaration of rights -
Albany Plan of Union
Was an attempt at forming a union of the colonies -
Stamp Act
Required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in Lodon. Stamp tax had to be paid in valid British currency. The tax was to help pay for troops stationed in North America after the victory in the Seven Years' War -
Boston Massacre
British army soldiers killed five civillian men and injured six others. -
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. -
Intolerable Acts
A series of laws passed by the British Parliment. -
First Continental Congress
Was a convention of delegates from twelve British North American colonies that met on September 5, 1774. It was called in response to the passage of the Coercive Acts by the British Parliment. The Intolerable Acts had punished Boston for the Boston Tea Party. -
Second Continental Congress
Managed the Colonial War effort, and moved towards Independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence -
American Revolution begins
Political disaster during the last half of the 18th century in which the thirteen colonies in North America joined together to break free from the British Empire -
Declaration of Independence
A statement adopted by the Continental Congress, which announced that the thirteen American colonies regarded themselves as Independent States. -
Articles of Confederation
An agreement among the 13 founding states that established the United States of America as a confederation of Sovereign states and served as its first constitution -
Shay's Rebellion
People protested against the harsh government policies and a Malitia army defeated a Shaysite attempt to seize the federal Springfield Armory; which killed 4 and wounded 20 -
Constitution Convention
Same as Philadelphia Convention was intended to revise Articles of Confederation. The result led to the United States Constitution -
Philadelphia Convention
Addressed the problems in governing the United States of America. The convention was intended to revise the Articles of Confederation -
Connecticut Compromise
Was an agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States Constitution
