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Magna Carta
Is a document was a signed by King John. It states that every man has trial to jury and has a right to speak in court. -
Jamestown settled
The Virginia Company of England made a daring proposition: sail to the new, mysterious land, which they called Virginia in honor of Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen, and begin a settlement. They established Jamestown, Virginia, on May 14, 1607, the first permanent British settlement in North America. -
Mayflower Compact Written
It was a set of rules for self-governance established by the English settlers who traveled to the New World on the Mayflower. When Pilgrims and other settlers set out on the ship for America in 1620, they intended to lay anchor in northern Virginia. -
Petition of Right
A statement of civil liberties sent by the English Parliament to Charles I . Refusal by Parliament to finance the king's unpopular foreign policy had caused his government to exact forced loans and to quarter troops in subjects houses as an economy measure. -
English Bill of Rights
It is an act that the Parliament of England passed. The Bill creates separation of powers, limits the powers of the king and queen, enhances the democratic election and bolsters freedom of speech -
Albany Plan of Union
It is a plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies, suggested by Benjamin Franklin, then a senior leader and a delegate from Pennsylvania, at the Albany Congress on July 10, 1754 in Albany, New York. -
Stamp Act
An Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp. -
Boston Massacre
The Incident on King Street, was a confrontation on March 5, 1770 in which British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston. The event was heavily publicized by leading Patriots such as Paul Revere and Samuel Adams. -
Boston Tea Party
A political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773. Protest of the British Parliament's Tea Act of 1773, a bill designed to save the faltering East India Company by greatly lowering its tea tax and granting it a virtual monopoly on the American tea trade. -
Intolerable Acts
They were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British to the detriment of colonial goods. -
First Continental Congress
It was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States. -
American Revolution begins
Known as the American War of Independence. The Revolutionary War began with the confrontation between British troops and local militia at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, on 19 April 1775. -
Second Continental Congress
It was a meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies in America which united in the American Revolutionary War -
Declaration of Independence
It is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776 -
Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation served as the first constitution of the United States. It officially established the government of the union of 13 states. -
Shay’s Rebellion
It was an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts in opposition to a debt crisis among the citizenry and the state government's increased efforts to collect taxes both on individuals and their trades -
Connecticut Compromise
It was also known as the Great Compromise of 1787 or Sherman Compromise was an agreement 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. -
Philadelphia Convention
It was to address problems in governing the the United States of America, which had been operating under the Articles of Confederation
