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Magna Carta
Angevin charter originally issued in Latin. -
Jamestown Settled
an english cololony discovered virgina -
Mayflower Compact
an agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States Constitution. -
Petetion of Right
major English constitutional document that sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing. -
English Bill of Rights
an Act of the Parliament of England passed on 16 December 1689.[2] It was a restatement in statutory form of the Declaration of Right presented by the Convention Parliament to William and Mary in March 1689 (or 1688 by Old Style dating), inviting them to become joint sovereigns of England. -
Albany Plan of Union
plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government. -
Stamp Act
an act of the Parliament of Great Britain that imposed a direct tax on the colonies of British America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp. -
Boston Massacre
Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars -
Boston Tea Party
The demonstrators, some disguised as American Indians, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company, in defiance of the Tea Act of May 10, 1773. -
Intolerable Act
series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party -
First Continental Congress
convention of delegates from twelve colonies (Georgia was not present) that met. called in response to the passage of the Coercive Acts -
American Revolution Begins
America fights for independence -
Second Contential Congress
it was, in effect, a reconvening of the First Continental Congress. -
Decleration of Independence
a list of grievances against the King in order to justify before the world the breaking of ties between the colonies and the mother country. -
Articles Of Confederation
Document that established the United States as a confederation of sooverign states. -
Shays Rebellion
a seris of attacks on courthouses led by Shay -
Philadelphia Convention
address problems in governing the United States of America, which had been operating under the Articles of Confederation following independence from Great Britain. -
Constitution Convection
to address problems in governing the United States of America, which had been operating under the Articles of Confederation following independence from Great Britain. Although the Convention was intended to revise the Articles of Confederation, the intention from the outset of many of its proponents, chief among them James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, was to create a new government rather than fix the existing one. -
Connecticut Compromise
an agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States Constitution.
