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Magna Carta
Drafted to make peace between King John of England and a group of rebel barons. It promised protection of the church rights, protection for the barons from illegal imprisonment, access to swift justice, and limitations on feudal payments to the Crown, to be implemented through a council of 25 barons. -
Petition of Right
Sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing.Parliament refused to grant subsidies to support the war effort, leading to Charles gathering "forced loans" without Parliamentary approval and arbitrarily imprisoning those who refused to pay. -
English Bill of Rights
The Bill of Rights lays down limits on the power of the crown. It also sets out the rights of parliament -
Albany Plan of Union
The Albany was a proposalto create a unified government for the 13 colonies, suggested by Ben Franklin. It was formed at the Albany Congress -
Boston Massacre
British army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others. A mob formed and the troops shot at them -
Boston Tea Party
The demonstrators destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company.It was in defiance of the Tea Act of May 10th, 1773. -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.It was called in response to "The passage of the Coercive Acts" (also known as Intolerable Acts by the Colonial Americans) by the British Parliament. The Intolerable Acts had punished Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party. -
Revolutionary War
The first shot was fired at Lexington and Concord. This was the war that separated us from Britain. -
Second Continental Congress
The second congress managed the colonial war effort. They also moved incrementally towards independence. -
U.S. Declaration of Independence
Declared that the 13 colonies are independent from Britain. They formed a new nation, The United States of America. -
Articles Of Cenfederation
The Articles of Confederation was a doocument signed by the 13 original congress. It established the US as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first consitution. -
Shays' Rebellion
A series of attacks on courthouses by a small band of farmers led by revolutionary war captain Daniel Shays to block forclosure proceedings. -
Philadelphia Convention
The convention addressed problems governing the US. The U.S. consitution was created here. -
Virginia Plan
The proposal at the Constitutional Convention that called for representation of each state in Congress in proportion to that state's share of the U.S. population. -
New Jersey Plan
a proposal for the structure of the United States Government presented by William Paterson at the Constitutional Convention on June 15, 1787. The less populous states were adamantly opposed to giving most of the control of the national government to the more populous states, and so proposed an alternative plan that would have kept the one-vote-per-state representation under one legislative body from the Articles of Confederation. -
Louisiana Puchase
This purchase expanded the area of the U.S. This is a big part of our history because there were more opportunities opened up. -
Civil War
This war was a huge one in settiling some differences between the North and South. This war ultimately led to the downfall of slavery. -
Emancipation Proclamation
This proclamtion declared all slaves free. This was a huge moment in our history leading up to even having a black president. -
Transcontinental Railroad
This moment in history was the beginning of the giant transportation industry. This changed the way we travel and how we travel. -
Apollo 11
This event really set the US apart from the rest of the world by showing that we can be technologically advanced and that we are entranced by technology and the future. -
9/11
This terrorist attack sparked a nation. After this attack, the US went to war against terror.
