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Feb 2, 1215
Magna Carta
The Magna Carta included guarantees of such fundamental right as trial by jury and due process of law (protection aganist the arbitrary taking life, liberty, or property) -
Petition of Right
The Petiton of Right limited the king power in several ways. The document the king may not impose martial law. -
English Bills of Right
The document prohibited a standing army in peace time, except with the consent of Parilment. -
Albany Plan of Union
That body would have the power to raise military and naval force, make war and peace with Native Americans regulate trade with them. -
Boston Massacre
British troops in Boston fired on a jeering crowd, killing five people. Mob violence erupted at several parts, and many colonists supported a boycott. -
Boston Tea Party
A group of men, disguised as Native Americans, boarded three tea ships in Boston Harbor. They broke open the chests and dumped the ship's cargo into the sea -
First Continental Congress
The delegate urged the colonies to refuse all trade with the English until the hated taxes regulations were repealed -
Second Continental Congress
Congress fought a war, raised armies and a navy borrowed funds, bought supplies, created money system made treaties power -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration was also groundbreaking because it founded on the concept of the consent of the government. -
Article of Confederation
It established "a firm league of friendship" among the state. In effect the Article created a structure that more closely resembled an alliance of independent states than a government -
Shay's Rebellion
Daniel Shay who had served as an officer in the War of Independence, led an armed uprising that forced several state judges to close their court -
Virgina Plan
The Plan called for a new government with three seperate branches : legiislature, executive, and judical. -
New Jersery Plan
Retained the unicameral Congress of the Confederation with each of the State equally represented. -
Philadelphia Convention
The creation of a entirely new kind of government for the United States of America.This governmet would derive its power from a constitiution.
