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Document written to protect rights and property against a tyrannical king.
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A major constituional document that set out the specific liverties of the subject that the king is proibited from infringing.
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Act by Parliment in England to limit the power of the crown.
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Proposal suggested by Ben Franklin to create a unified government. "Under one government as far as might be nessesary for the defense and other general important purposes."
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Parliment passed a modified version of The Sugar and Molassas Act to place more taxes on goods such as sugar, wine, coffee, ect.
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The killing of five colonists by British regulars caused by the cululation of tensions in the American colonies.
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The Sons of Liberty and Samuel Adams boarded ships in Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard to protest British rule.
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The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. It was called in response to "The passage of the Coercive Acts" (also known as Intolerable Acts by the Colonial Americans) by the British Parliament. The Intolerable Acts had punished Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party.
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Convention of delegates that met soon after the warfare of the American Revolution began. They managed the colonial war effort and moved incrementally toward independance.
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A document that expressed the convictions in the minds and hearts of the American people and summerized the philosophy of "self evident truths". It also set forth a list of grevances against the King of England in order to justify before the world the reasions to break off from the mother country.
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The day the 13 colonies claimed their independance from England, the event the acted as the landmark birth of the United States of America.
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Document signed amongst the 13 original colognies that established the USA as a confederation of soverign states and served as Americas first consititution.
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The end of the rebellion of the 13 American colonies and we became offically seperated from England.
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The armed uprising in Massachusetes led by Daniel Shay in an attempt to overtake the courts and then Federal Reserve to eventually overthrow the American government. This act way feuled by precieved economic terrorism and growing disaffection with State and Federal governemtn.
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A convetnion that was called to revise the Articles of Confederation into a more powerful document. 55 delagates from 12 states were present to create a more effective and unified consitution.
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The plan that acted as the foundation of the Consititution and proposed national government with checks and balances.
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Widely known as the "Small State Plan", this was a proposal for the structure of the United States government presented by William Patterson at the Consitutional convention.
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United States declared war on Britian over British interferance with American maritian shipping and westward expansion.
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A landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States that oulawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national orgin.
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A seris of coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the US in New York City. This attack killed 2,996 and caused $10 billion in property and infrastructure damage.
