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A document that forced the King to give up some of his power and make him realize that the people had rights.
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A document prhibiting the king from infringing on the rights of the people.
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The Bill of Rights was passed by Parliament on 16 December 1689 It was a re-statement in statutory form of the Declaration of Right presented by the Convention Parliament
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convention of delegates from twelve of the thirteen North American colonies
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The american people met in Ablany new York and made a plan of the union which was to bring together the colonies under a royl governer
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An act for granting and applying certain stamp duties, and other duties, in the British colonies and plantations in America,
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In Boston 5 men were killed in a riot. This sparked the rebellion and then turned into the American Revolutionary War.
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The Boston Tea Party was when the american people rebelled agains Briatin taxing the tea and through it over the side of a ship into the harbor.
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Boston Port Act, the first of the acts passed in response to the Boston Tea Party. Massachusetts Government Act provoked even more outrage than the Port Act because it unilaterally altered the government of Massachusetts to bring it under control of the British government. Administration of Justice Act allowed the governor to move trials of accused royal officials to another colony or even to Great Britain if he believed the official could not get a fair trial in Massachusetts.
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The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies, the met after the american revolutionary war had begun.
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The United States Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were now independent states,
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The Articles of Confederation are considered the first constitution. They stated how the government was to operate in the new world.
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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
