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Magna Carter
Magna Carta Libertatum, commonly called Magna Carta, is a charter agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215 -
Jamestown settled
First town of America -
Mayflower Compact
written by the male passengers of the Mayflower, consisting of separatist Congregationalists who called themselves "Saints", and adventurers and tradesmen, most of whom were referred to by the Separatists as "Strangers" -
Petition of Right
Major English constitutional document that sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing -
English Billl of Rights
an Act of the Parliament of England that deals with constitutional matters and sets out certain basic civil rights -
Albany Plan of Union
The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies, suggested by Benjamin Franklin, then a senior leader (age 45) and a delegate from Pennsylvania -
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Stamp Act
an act of the British Parliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial document -
Boston Massacre
Killing of five colonists by British regulars -
Boston Tea Party
political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston -
Intolerable Acts
American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor. -
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First Continential Congres
meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies -
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American Revolution
War that ended in American freedom -
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Second Continential Congress
convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that, soon after warfare, declared the American Revolutionary War had begun -
Deceleration of Independence
Document that freed the colonies and created the United States of America -
Articles of Confederation
the original constitution of the US, ratified in 1781, which was replaced by the US Constitution in 1789. -
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Shay's Rebellion
series of protests in 1786 and 1787 by American farmers against state and local enforcement of tax collections and judgments for debt -
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Philadelphia Convention
This 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. The delegates elected George Washington to preside over the Convention. The result of the Convention was the creation of the United States Constitution, placing the Convention among the most significant events in the history of the United States -
Connecticut Compromise
agreement that 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
