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The document accepted by King John of England in 1215 which contained a set of laws establishing the right of English barons.
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Signed aboard the May-flower in 1620 by the ship's forty-one free adult men, served as the basis for Plymouth Colony's government throughout its history.
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It was the First English colony in America to survive and become permanent. It was later the capital of Virginia and the site of the House of Burgesses.
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A statment of civil liberties sent by Parliment to Charles I complaing of a series of breches of law. It sought reginition of four principles.
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Bill of Rights A declaration of certain rights of subjects, enacted by the English Parliament in 1689
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A plan proposed by Ben Franklin in 1754 in Albany, New York, It was an attempt at forming a union of the colonies.
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First direct British tax on American colonists. Instituted in November, 1765. Every newspaper, pamphlet, and other public and legal document had to have a Stamp, or British seal, on it.
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An outbreak in Boston against British troops, after provicated, in which a few citizens were killed.
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Incident in 1773 were Americans patriots dressed as Indians threw 342 chests of tea from three British ships into the harbor.
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Four punitive measures enacted by the British Parliament against the American colonies. They were an attempt to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party.
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The First Continental Congress was a group of 56 delegates from 12 colonies who met in Philadelphia in September of 1774.
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The war between the American colonies and Great Britain, leading to the formation of the independent United States.
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The second Congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.
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the document recording the proclamation of the 2nd American Continental Congress asserting the independence of the colonies from Great Britain
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An agreement made by the original 13 states in 1777 establishing a confederacy and, as well, indepentdence from Great Britian. Ratified in 1781.
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An uprising by Massachusetts farmers led by former Revolutionary War leader, chief among them Daniel Shays, against the harsh treatment of debtors by the courts in 1786.
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Assembly that drafted the Constitution of the United States. All states but Rhode Island sent delegates in response to a call by the Annapolis Convention for a meeting in Philadelphia to amend the Articles of Confederation.
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Also known as the Great Compromise. It was a compromise adopted at the Constitutional Convention, providing the states with equal representation in the Senate and proportional representation in the House of Representatives.
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Convention called in 1787 to discuss problems with the current government document, the Articles of Confederation. The result was a new form of government, the Constitution. Delegates from all over the colonies attended, and they struggled with competing concerns of large-population states and small-population states.
