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Magna Carta
The Magna Carta is: the “great charter” of English liberties, forced from King John by the English barons and sealed at Runnymede, June 15, 1215. -
Jamestown Settled
a village in E Virginia: first permanent English settlement in North America 1607 -
Mayflower Compact written
An agreement reached by the Pilgrims on the Mayflower. -
Petition of Right
The Petition of Right is a major English constitutional document that sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing -
English Bill of Rights
It was a re-statement in statutory form of the Declaration of Right presented by the Convention Parliament. -
Albany Plan of Union
It was an early attempt at forming a union of the colonies "under one government as far as might be necessary for defense and other general important purposes, during the French and Indian War. -
Stamp Act
an act of the British Parliament for raising revenue in the American Colonies by requiring the use of stamps and stamped paper for official documents, commercial writings, and various articles -
Boston Massacre
a riot in Boston arising from the resentment of Boston colonists toward British troops quartered in the city, in which the troops fired on the mob and killed several persons. -
Boston Tea Party
Colonists rebelled against tea tax by dressing up as indians, and sneeking aboard ships and dumping it into the Boston Harbor. -
Intolerable Acts
a series of British measures passed in 1774 and designed to punish the Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party. -
First Continental Congress
the assembly of delegates from the American colonies held during and after the American Revolutionary War. -
Start of the American Revolution
The American Revoltuion started with the shot heard around the world. -
Second Continental Congress
a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that met beginning on May 10, 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun. -
Declaration of Independence
the public act by which the Second Continental Congress, on July 4, 1776, declared the Colonies to be free and independent of England. -
Article of Confederation
the agreement made by the original 13 states in 1777 establishing a confederacy to be known as the United States of America. -
Shay's Rebellion
an armed uprising in central and western Massachusetts. -
Constitution Convection
addressing problems in governing the United States of America, which had been operating under the Articles of Confederation following independence from Great Britain. -
Conneticut Comprimise
a compromise adopted at the Constitutional Convention, providing the states with equal representation in the Senate and proportional representation in the House of Representatives. -
Phillidelphia Convention
Convention was purportedly intended only 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.
