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Period: Jun 15, 1200 to
Chapter 2 Timeline
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Jun 15, 1215
Magna Carta
an English charter, originally issued in the year 1215 and reissued later in the 13th century in modified versions. It limited the English King of his powers by law and to protect their privileges. -
Petition of Right
A major English constitutional document that sets out specific liberites of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing. It was passed on June 7th, 1628, that contains restricitions on non-parliamentary taxation. -
Bill of Rights
It was passed by Parliament, a restatement in statuary form of the Declaration of Right, presented in March 1689 inviting them to become joint soverigns of England. -
Albany Plan of Union
Plan proposed by Benjamin Franklin at the Albany Congress, in Albany, New York. It was an early attempt at forming a union of the colonies under one government. -
Boston Massacre
was an incident where British Army soliders killed five civilians, who were apart of a mob who harrassed and verbally abused the soldiers. -
First Continental Congress
It was a convention of delegates from twelve British North American colonies that met ast Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia. It was called in response to the passage of the Coercive Acts by the Colonial Americans by the British Parliament. It had punished Boston for the Boston Tea Party. -
Second Contiental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War. -
US Declaration of Independence
It was a statement adopted by the Continental Congress that announced that the thirteen American colomies that were at war with Great Britain. They considered themselves no longer a part of the British Empire, and this document was to disclude themselves from all of Great Britain, and form their own government. -
Articles of Confederation
It was an agreement among the 13 founding states that legally established the United States of America as a confederation of soverign states and served as its first constitution. -
Shay's Rebellion
It was an armed uprising that toook place in Central and western Massachusetts from 1786 to 1787. The rebellion was named after Daniel Shays, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War. -
Philadelphia (Constitutional) Convention
It took place from May 14th to September 17th, 1787 in Pennsylvania. It was a convention used to address problems in governing the US, which had been operating under the Articles of Confederation following independence from Great Britain. -
Virginia Plan
It was a proposal by Virginia delegates for a bicameral legislative branch. Trhe plan was drafted by JaMes Madison while he waited fro a quorum to assemble at the Constitutional Convention of 1787. -
Boston Tea Party
It was a direct action by colonists in Boston, a town in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the British government and the monopolistic East India Company that controlled all the tea imported into the colonies. After officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists dumped the tea into the harbor.