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Magna Carta
The 1215 Charter required King John of England to proclaim certain liberties, and accept that his will was not arbitrary. It was used to limit power on the English King. -
Jamestown Settlement
Jamestown was the first successful English settlement on the mainland of North America -
Mayflower Compact
First governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by the colonists, later together known to history as the Pilgrims, who crossed the Atlantic aboard the Mayflower. -
Petition of Right
Parliament wrote a list of things that were illegal for a king/queen to do. During this period, the king was Charles I of England. -
English Bill of Rights
It lays down limits on the powers of sovereign and sets out the rights of Parliament and rules for freedom of speech in Parliament, the requirement to regular elections to Parliament and the right to petition the monarch without fear of retribution. -
Albany Plan of Union
The Albany Plan of Union was a plan written by Benjamin Franklin in 1754 for all 13 colonies to unite and fight as one power to win the French and Indian War. It did not pass, however, because colonial legislators did not want to give up control of their own affairs. -
Stamp Act
The act required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp. These printed materials were legal documents, magazines, newspapers and many other types of paper used throughout the colonies. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston massacre was when the colonist were calling the red coats lobster backs. The Commander said do not fire their guns but they did not recieve the message so they ended up killing 5 people. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was the colonists' protest against taxes without representation in Parliment. The king gave a tax on tea to the East India trading company which angered the colonists because they couldn't get tea from anywhere else. -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress sent a letter listing their grievances to the king of England. They also came up with a plan to boycott British goods until the Intolerable Acts were repealed. The First Continental Congress laid the groundwork for the cooperation necessary to unite the colonies in their fight for independence. -
Intolerable Acts
It is names used to describe a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 relating to Britain's colonies in North America. The acts triggered outrage and resistance in the Thirteen Colonies that later became the United States, and were important developments in the growth of the American Revolution. -
Second Continental Congress
The second Congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved a small step towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. By raising armies, directing strategy, appointing diplomats, and making formal treaties, created the U.S. -
Declaration of Independence
It was adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain regarded themselves as independent states. -
American Revolution
The political upheaval during the last half of the 18th century in which thirteen colonies in North America joined together to break free from the British Empire, combining to become the United States of America. -
Articles of confederation
An agreement among the 13 founding states that legally established the United States of America as a nation and served as its first constitution. -
Shay's Rebellion
Farmers were unable to pay the debts and taxes on their farms and they were being taken away by the courts. Daniel Shays reasoned that his farm could not be taken away by the court if there was no court. He raised a militia and led an uprising. 1000 men marched to Springfield and burned most of the town and freed the debtors because Many soldiers were not paid adequately in service during the struggle, -
Constitution Convention
(philadelphia convention) goal was to create a new government -
Connecticut Compromise
It was an agreement between 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. -
Philadelphia Convention
The goal was to create a new government. The delegates elected George Washington to preside over the convention. The result of the Convention was the United States Constitution, placing the Convention among the most significant events in the history of the United States.
