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The Great Charter signed Runnymede by King John in 1215.
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This was the first successful English settlement on North America.
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This document was written in November of 1620.
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This document was prepared by parliament and signed by King Charles I of England in 1628.
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This bill prohibited a standing army in peace time except with the concent of parliment. It also included guarantees such as the right to a fair trial, freedom from excessive bail, and cruel and unusual punishment.
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Plan proposed by Benjamin Franklin in 1754.
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This law required the use of tax stamps on all legal documents, certian business agreements, and on newspapers.
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This event took place on March 5, 1770. British troops in Boston fired on a jeering crowd of colonists, killing five in what became known as the Boston Massacre.
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This event took place on December 16, 1773. A group of men disguised as Native Americans boarded three tea ships in the Boston Harbor and dumped to contents of the boxes off the ship.
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These acts prompted widespread calls for a meeting of the colonies.
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This event took place in the spring of 1774 after parliment passed another set of laws against the colonies.
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This war took place between the Colonists and the British in order for them to gian their independence from Britain.
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The Second Continental Congress met in Philadelphia on May 10, 1775 shortly after the Revolutionary War had begun.
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This document is composed of four parts: a preamble, a declaration of natural rights, a list of greviences, and a resolution of independence.
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This document established "a firm league of friendship" among the states.
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This rebellion was the result of public ad private debts that went unpaid. Violence broke out in a number of places. The most spectacular of these events played out in Western Massachusetts in a seriece of incidents.
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This was an agreement reached during the Constitutional Convention that said congress should be composed of a senate in which states would be represented equally.
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This event was the start of the never-ending contest.
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This meeting was held to address the problems of the Articles of Confederation following independence.
