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Magna Carta
800 years of freedom. 1215 King John I was forced by his barons to sign the “Great Charter” in Runnymede near Windsor. -
Jamestown Settled
The colony was sponsored by the Virginia Company of London, a group of investors who hoped to profit from the venture. -
Mayflower Compact Written
It was signed on November 11, 1620.The Pilgrims had obtained permission from English authorities to settle in Virginia, whose northern border at the time extended up to what is now New York. -
Petition of Right
A Major English Constitutional document that sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited. -
English Bill of Rights
It was a restatement in statutory from of the Declaration of Right presented by the Convention Parliament to William and Mary in March 1689, -
Albany Plan of Union
A proposal to create a unified government for the 13 colonies. It was suggested by Benjamin Franklin. -
Stamp Act
An act of the British Parliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. -
Boston Massacre
It is known as the Incident on King Street by the British, it also was an incident on March 5, 1770. The British Army soldiers killed five civilian men and injured six others. -
Boston Tea Party
It was raided by three British ships in Boston harbor and dumped hundreds of chests of tea into the harbor it also organized as a protest against taxes on tea -
Intolerable Acts
Patriot name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 relating to Massachusetts after the Boston Tea party. -
First Continental Congress
It was a convention of delegates from twelve colonies that met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, It was called in response to the passage of the Coercive Acts by the British Parliament. -
American Revolution Begins
American colonies against Great Britain. The colonies won independence. -
Second Continental Congress
It was a convention of delegates from the thirteen colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, After welfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun. -
Declaration of Independence
The document recording the proclamation of the second Continental Congress asserting the independence of the Colonies from Great Britain. -
Shay's Rebellion
An armed uprising that took place in central and western Massachusetts in 1786 and 1787. The rebellion was named after Daniel Shays, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War and he was also one of the rebel leaders. -
Connecticut Compromise
I was anagreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States Constitution. -
Constitution Convection
Convention of United States statesmen who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787.Representatives from each of the former Colonies except Rhode Island, -
Philadelphia Convention
Addresses problems in governing the United States of America, which had been operating under the articles of confederation following independence from Great Britain. -
Articles of Confederation
It was the original constitution of the US. It was ratified in 1781, which was replaced by the US Constitution in 1789.