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Period: Jan 26, 1200 to
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Jun 15, 1215
Magna Carta
charter issued by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor. First drafted by the Archbishop of Canterbury to make peace between the unpopular King and a group of rebel barons, it promised the protection of church rights, -
Petition Of Right
It is a major English constitutional document that sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing. Passed on 7 June 1628, the Petition contains restrictions on non-Parliamentary taxation, forced billeting of soldiers, imprisonment without cause, and the use of martial law. One of England's most famous constitutional documents. -
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. It reestablished the liberty of Protestants to have arms for their defence within the rule of law, and condemned the James II of England for "causing several good subjects being Protestants to be disarmed at the same time when papists were both arme -
Albany Plan Of Union
The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government. representatives from seven of the British North American colonies adopted the plan. The Albany Plan was the first important proposal to conceive of the colonies as a collective whole united under one government. -
Boston Massacre
It was a street fight with snowballs, stones, and sticks. A squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry. -
First Continental congress
The first Continental Congress met in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia. Carpenter's Hall was also the seat of the Pennsylvania Congress. All of the colonies except Georgia sent delegates. These were elected by the people, by the colonial legislatures, or by the committees of correspondence of the respective colonies. -
Second Continential Congress
The Second Continental Congress 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.The second Congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence. -
Declaration Of Independence
It was signed by congress. The signatures of fifty-six delegates are affixed; however, the exact date each person signed it has long been the subject of debate.Congress asked Thomas Jefferson and others to write a
declaration of independence. They needed a document to
declare why the colonies had to become independent of
Britain. -
Boston Tea Party
incident in which 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company were thrown from ships into Boston Harbor by American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians. They had to get those spices and goods. -
Articles Of confederation
The final draft of the Articles served as the de facto system of government used by the Congress ("the United States in Congress assembled"). was a document signed amongst the thirteen original colonies that established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution.[1] Its drafting by a committee appointed by the Second Continental Congress began on July 12, 1776, and an approved version was sent to the states for ratification in late 1 -
Shay's Rebellion
(August 1786–February 1787), uprising in western Massachusetts in opposition to high taxes and stringent economic conditions. Armed bands forced the closing of several courts to prevent execution of foreclosures and debt processes. series of protests in 1786 and 1787 by American farmers against state and local enforcement of tax collections and judgments for debt. -
Philadelphia Convention
took place from May 25 to September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to address problems in governing the United States of America, which had been operating under the Articles of Confederation following independence from Great Britain. Although the Convention was intended to revise the Articles of Confederation, the intention from the outset of many of its proponents, chief among them James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, was to create a new government rather than fix the existing one. -
Virgina Plan
Drafted by James Madison, and presented by Edmund Randolph to the Constitutional Convention on May 29, 1787, the Virginia Plan proposed a strong central government composed of three branches: legislative, executive, and judicial. Its a good piece of our government. -
New Jersey Plan
Also widely known as the Small State Plan or the Paterson Plan) was a proposal for the structure of the United States Government presented by William Paterson at the Constitutional Convention. which called for two houses of Congress, both elected with apportionment according to population.[2] 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-pe
