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The Magna Carta
The first document to limit the power of England's monarchs. Established the principle that rulers are subject to law. -
Jamestown Settlement
With its origin in the first meeting of the Virginia General Assembly at Jamestown in July 1619, the House of Burgesses was the first democratically-elected legislative body in the British American colonies. -
Mayflower Compact
It was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by separatist Congregationalists who called themselves "Saints". Later they were referred to as Pilgrims or Pilgrim Fathers. They were fleeing from religious persecution by King James of England. -
Petition of Rights
It contained restrictions on non-Parliamentary taxation, forced billeting of soldiers, imprisonment without cause, and the use of martial law. -
English Bill of Rights
Prohibited a standing army in peacetime, except with the consent of Parliament, and required that all parliamentary eletions to be free. -
Albany Plan of Union
A meeting of 7 of the northern colonies at Albany; Conneticut, Maryland, Massachussets, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island. The Albany Plan was created to defending the colonies against the native americans who were threating the colonies. Benjamin Frnaklin of this wonderful plan. -
Stamp Act Congress
The Stamp Act Congress or First Congres.s of the American Colonies was a meeting held between October 7 and 25, 1765 in New York City, consisting of representatives from some of the British colonies in North America -
First Continental Congress
Parliament passes yet another set of laws, this time to punish the colonists for the troubles in Boston and elsewhere. -
Second Continental Congress
It was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun.
