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The members discussed the worsenning situation and debated plans for action.
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Included Guarantees of such fundamental rights as trial by jury and due process of law.
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Limited the Kings power. Demanded that the king no longer imprison or otherwise punish any person but by the lawful judgement of his peers or by the law of the land.
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Prohibited a standing army in peace time, except with the consent of Parliament and required that all parliamentary elections be free.
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A plan to propose the creation of an annual congress of delegates from each of the 13 colonies.
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Five Colonist were killed by the British troops at the Boston Massacre.
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Response to the Tea Act. Colonist disguised themselves as Native Americans and boarded 3 ships in Bostons Harbor and dumped all the cargo into the sea.
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Met in 1775 because the British refused to compromise its colonial policies.
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Benjamin Franklin and members of the second continental congress approved the Declaration of Independance.
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This was the United States' first Constitution. This was in force from March 1, 1781 until 1789 when the constitution went into effect.
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Daniel Shay led an uprising that forced several state judges to close their courts. In response to the violence, the Massachusetts legislature eventually passed laws to ease the burden of debtors.
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The creation of an entire new kind of government.
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Retained the unicarmel congress of confederation, with each of the states equally represented.
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Called for a new government with 3 seperate branches. Legislature, Executive, and Judical.
