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Magna Carta
An english charter published in 1215. A 1225 and a 1297 version were published later that century. This states the rights of people given by the king. -
Virginia House of Burgesses
Created to make conditions in the colony more agreeable for its current inhabitants. -
Mayflower Compact
41 colonist signed the Mayflower Compact to establish a government -
English Bill of Rights
This was a bill of rights forced upon the colonies. This was by British parliament. -
Stamp Act
This was a new tax imposed on all american colonists. They had to pay a tax on all paper they used. -
Boston Tea Party
After officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships at night and destroyed the tea by throwing it into the Boston Harbor -
First Contimental Congress
The first meeting was with twelve of the thirteen colonies. They wanted to right the wrongs that had been inflicted on the colonies. -
Lexington and Concord
The first military engagments of the revelutionary war. -
Second Continental Congress
The second Continental congress started right after the battle of Lexington and Concord. The Egland militia were still trying to drive out British, so they established militia at the second Continental Congress. -
French and Indian War
Waer between British America and New france, the war lasted seven years before british finally won -
Decleration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is the declaring of the Thirteen colonies to be free from Great Britian. -
Articles of Confederation
The articles of Confederation were first thought of July 1775. Although, this was not fully adopted by every state until march 1, 1781. This was the beginning of the United States of America. -
Peace Treaty With Great Britain
also known as Treaty of Pairis, it ended the revolutionary war -
Shay's Rebellion
This was a clash between New England Farmers, and Merchants. This lead to the creation of the Constitution. -
Constitutional Conventioln
Happened so they could address problems in governing the United States of America, which had been operating under the Articles of Confederation -
Virginia Plan
Proposal by Virginia delegates for a bicameral legislative branch. Set overall agenda for debate in the convention. -
Connecticut Compromise
defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States Constitution. It -
Slave Trade Comprimise
Agreement during the Constitutional Convention of 1787, protecting the interests of slaveholders, that forbid Congress the power to act on the slave trade for twenty years. This meant that slaves would be mostly a state power. -
New Jersey Plan
A proposal for the structure of the United States Government presented by William Paterson at the Constitutional Convention. -
Three Fifths Compromise
comprimise in which three fifths of the slave population would be counted to vote on things. -
Bill of Rights
The Bill of Rights contains the first ten amendments to the Constitution. It tells the freedom that the U.S Americans have. -
Rhoad Island Ratifies
Rhode Island became the 13th state to enter the Union after ratifying the Constitution.
