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It limited King John's power.
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The Jamestown Settlement Colony was the first successful English settlement on the mainland of North America.
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It was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony.
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A major English constitutional document that sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing.
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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.
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Proposed by Benjamin Franklin at the Albany Congress in Albany, New York. It was an early attempt at forming a union of the colonies.
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The Stamp Act of 1765 was a direct tax imposed by the British Parliament on the colonies of British America.
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It was an incident that led to the deaths of five civilians at the hands of British redcoats.
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It was to protest British control of the tea trade.
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A series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 relating to Britain's colonies in North America.
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It was a convention of delegates from twelve of the thirteen North American colonies that met at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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On the night of April 18, 1775, General Gage sent 700 men to seize munitions stored by the colonial militia at Concord, Massachusetts.
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The second Congress managed the colonial war effort, and adopted the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.
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It made the Colonies free from the British. They then became the United States of America.
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It was the first constitution of the United States and specified how the Federal government was to operate, including adoption of an official name for the new nation, United States of America.
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An armed uprising in central and western Massachusetts. The rebellion is named after Daniel Shays, a veteran of the American Revolutionary war.
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The convention that developed the United States Constitution.
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An agreement between large and small states reached during the that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States Constitution.
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To address problems in governing the United States of America, which had been operating under the Articles of Confederation following independence from Great Britain.
