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Jun 15, 1215
Magna Carta
It was made to limit the powers and protecting privlidges. And it was forced on the king of england. -
Mayflower compact
First government document of plymouth colonie -
petition of right
sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing -
English bill of rights
Limites the powers and sets rights of the parliment -
Albany plan of union
proposed to create a unified government for the 13 colonies. -
Stamp act
imposed a direct tax by british parliment -
Declaration of independence
gave us our rights as declaring ourself a free country -
Stamp act congress
devise a unified protest against new British taxation -
Declaration of rights and grievences
Said that taxes were unconstituional -
Intoleerable acts
Striped massichusits the right of governing itself. -
Boston tea party
It was a rebellion to the taxation of the colonies of tea. -
First continental congress
conventions of delegets of the 12 colonies that made up laws -
Second continental congress
mananged the coloniel war effort and was the second meeting held in phildelphia of the colonies