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This was a charter signed by King John that stopped taxation without legisture approval. This means King John could no longer tax the people without Parliament's consent.
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This is a major English constitutional that basically set rights and liberties the King could not take away.
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This was an English statue confirming the decloration of rights. This act was made by parliament.
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This was Benjamin Franklin's proposal to create a unified government for the 13 colonies. in Albany, New York.
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This was a fight that occured on the streets of Boston when a "patriot" mob began to throw objects at British souldiers. Many colonist were killed.
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This took place when colonist invaded 3 British ships in the Boston harbor. They destroyed all their cargo of tea to protest taxtion by dumping it into the sea.
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This was a meeting of 12 of the 13 delegates from the colonies. They met in Philidelphia.
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This was a group of delegates that began to meet in the summer of 1775 in Peensylvania shortly after war had struck.
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This document established the United States as a single nation. It was written in whole by Thomas Jefferson.
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This is the original consitiution of the U.S. It was replaced by the constitution in 1789. The Article of Confederation set out regulations each state promised to obey.
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This was an uprising led by a former militia officer, Daniel Shays. Shay's followers protested the foreclosuers of farms in dept and briefly shut down the courts.
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This meeting was made to design a government with seperate legislative, executive, and juducial branches. All states were invited to send delegates to attend.
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This plan was purposed by the Virgina delegates for a bicameral legislative branch. The Virgina Plan is also known as the Randolph Plan.
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This was a plan presented at the Constitutional Convention by William Paterson. This plan was based on the structure of the United States.
