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The Magna Carta is a document that established the principle that everyone is subject to the law. It also guarantees the rights of individuals the, right of of justice.
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This was the first successful permanent English settlement in what became the United States. This is now known as Virginia.
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The first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by the male passengers of the Mayflower.
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An English constitutional document setting out specific individual protections against the state. This has equal value to the Magna Carta and Bill of Rights.
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A landmark Act in the constitutional law of England that sets out certain basic civil rights. It clarifies who would be next to inherit the Crown.
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This was a plan to create a unified government for the thirteen colonies. This plan was suggested by Benjamin Franklin.
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An act of the Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America. It required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London.
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British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston. The event included some leading Patriots such as Paul Revere and Samuel Adams.
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A political protest where American colonists dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor. They were angry at Britain for imposing taxation without any representation.
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Laws passed by the British Parliament after the Boston Tea Party. The laws were to punish the colonists of Massachusetts for their protest.
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Delegates from each of the 13 colonies except for Georgia met in Philadelphia as the First Continental Congress to organize colonial resistance to Parliament's Coercive Acts. The presidents of this were Peyton Randolph and Henry Middleton.
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The American Revolution began because British attempted to impose greater control over the colonies and make them repay the crown for its defense of them during the French and Indian War. It occurred in North America.
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A meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies in America which united in the American Revolutionary War. The presidents of this were Peyton Randolph and Samuel Huntington.
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The Declaration of Independence is basically the colonist's motivations for seeking independence. Today we celebrate this every year on July 4.
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An armed fight in Western Massachusetts in response to a debt crisis among the citizenry. It was also in opposition to the state government's increased efforts to collect taxes both on individuals and their trades.
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An event that took place to decide how America was going to be governed. May-September 1787. This took place in the old Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia.
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The Connecticut Compromise was an agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States Constitution. It was created by Roger Sherman and Oliver Ellsworth.
