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Magna Carta
Document signed by King John to make peace between unpopular king and a group of rebel barons -
Petition of Right
English constitutional document that sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing. -
English Bill of Rights
An English precursor of the Constitution, along with the Magna Carta and the Petition of Right -
Albany Plan of Union
plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars. It was the culmination of tensions in the American colonies that had been growing since Royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts in October 1768 to enforce the heavy tax burden imposed by the Townshend Acts. -
Boston Tea Party
a group of colonists protest thirteen years of increasing British oppression, by attacking merchant ships in Boston Harbor. They dumped tons of tea into the Boston Harbor ro protest. -
First Continental Congress
a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774 -
Second Contintional Congress
convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting -
Declaration of Independance
ordered and approved by the Continental Congress and written largely by Thomas Jefferson -
Articles of Confederation
Established a goveernment dominated by the states -
Shay's Rebellion
was an armed uprising that took place in Massachusetts. -
Virginia Plan
a proposal by Virginia delegates for a bicameral legislative branch. The plan was drafted by James Madison while he waited for a quorum to assemble at the Constitutional Convention of 1787. -
Philadelphia Convention
address problems in governing the United States of America, which had been operating under the Articles of Confederation following independence from Great Britain. -
New Jeresy Plan
a proposal for the structure of the United States Government presented by William Paterson at the Constitutional Convention. -
Louisiana Purchase
to the 530,000,000 acres of territory in North America that the United States purchased from France in 1803 for US $15 million. -
Gettysburg Address
speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, one of the best-known in American history.[4] It was delivered by Lincoln during the American Civil War -
Great Depression
a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. -
Manhattan Project
a research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada. -
Founding Fathers
John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington. refers broadly to those individuals of the Thirteen British Colonies in North America who led the American Revolution against the authority of the British Crown and established the United States of America -
9/11
a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the United States in New York City and the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area
