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Sep 4, 1215
Magna Carta
First document imposed upon a king of england by a group of his subjects in an attempt to limit his powers by law and protect their rights. -
Jamestown
First permanent english settlement -
Mayflower compact
First governing document of plymouth colony -
Petition of Rights
English constitutional document that sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing -
English Bills of Rights
Combined pass grievances against the deposed king with a more general statement of basic liberties -
Albany Plan
Proposal to create a unified government for the 13 colonies suggest by Benjamin Franklin -
Stamp Act Congress
Law that required the use of tax stamp on all legal documents -
Boston Massacre
Roit arising from the resentment of Boston colonists toward British troops quarted in the city in which the troops fired on the mob and killed several people -
Boston Tea Party
Raid by citizens of Boston on three british ships in the harbour as a protest against taxes on tea -
Intollerable Act
Patroits name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British parliament in 1774 after Boston Tea Party -
First Continental Congress
Convention of delegates from 12 colonies -
Second Continental Congress
Convention of delegatesnfrom 13 colonies sfter warfare in the American Revolutionsry War begun -
Concord and Lexington
British troops had moved from Boston toward Concord and Lexington to seize the colonist millitary supplies and arrest revolutionaries -
Declaration of Independence
Written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the 13 American colonies from Great Britain -
Articles of Confederation
The original constitution of the US -
Declaration of Rights
Fundamental document of the French Revolution and in the history of human rights
