Lincoln 1

Enlightenment

By Ben.hubers
  • Jun 15, 1215

    Magna Carta

    Magna Carta
    Promised the protection of church rights, protection for the barons from illegal imprisonment access to swift justice.

  • Petition of Right

    Petition of Right
    Major English constitutional documnet that sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing

  • Englsih Bill of Rights

    Englsih Bill of Rights
    Englsih precursor of the Constitution, limited the power of englsih sovereign and was written as an aact of parliament.

  • Albany Plan of Union

    Albany Plan of Union
    Plan to place the British Americna Colonies under a more centeralized government.

  • Boston Massacre

    Boston Massacre
    Street fight that occured between a patriot mob and British soldiers. Severaal colonists were killed.

  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party
    A group of colonies protest thirteen years of increasing British appression by attacking merchants ships in Boston Harbor. British close the port and inflict harsher penalties.

  • First Continental Congress

    First Continental Congress
    A meeting of deleggates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met at Carpenters Hall in Philadelphia Pennsylvania.

  • Second Continentaal Congress

    Second Continentaal Congress
    Convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775. They managaed the colony war effort.

  • Decleration of Independence

    Decleration of Independence
    Fundamnetal documnet establishing of the United States as a nation. Decleration was ordered and approved by the Continental Congress and written largely by Thomas Jefferson.

  • Articles of Confederation

    Articles of Confederation
    First Constitution of the United States on Nov 15, 1777. Ratification of the articles of all thirteen states did not occur until March 1, 1781.

  • Shay's Rebellion

    Shay's Rebellion
    Was an armed uprising that took place in Massachusettes during the 1780's.

  • Philadelphia Convention

    Philadelphia Convention
    Gathering that drafted the Constitution of the United States, this meeting designed a government with separate legislative, executive, and judical branches.

  • Virginia Plan

    Virginia Plan
    Virginia plan also known as the Randolph plan, was a proposal by virginia delegates for a bicameral legislative branch

  • New Jersey Plan

    New Jersey Plan
    Proposal for the structture of the United States Governement presented by Williams Paterson at the Constitutional Convention