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Period: Feb 2, 1200 to
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Feb 2, 1215
Magna Carta
it promised the protection of church rights, protection for the barons from illegal imprisonment, access to swift justice, and limitations on feudal payments to the Crown, to be implemented through a council of 25 baron -
Petition of Right
a major English constitutional document that sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing -
English Bill of Rights
is an English precursor of the Constitution, along with the Magna Carta and the Petition of Right. The English Bill of Rights limited the power of the English sovereign, and was written as an act of Parliament. -
Albany Plan of Union
a proposal to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies, suggested by Benjamin Franklin -
Boston Massacre
which British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others. British troops had been stationed in Boston, capital of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, since 1768 in order to protect and support crown-appointed colonial officials -
Boston Tea Party
a group of colonists protest thirteen years of increasing British oppression, by attacking merchant ships in Boston Harbor. In retaliation, the British close the port, and inflict even harsher penalties. -
First Continental Congress
a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution -
Declaration of Independence
announced that the thirteen American colonies, Then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. -
Second Continental Congress
convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun. -
Articles of Confederation
a document signed amongst the thirteen original colonies that established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution. -
Shay's Rebellion
armed uprising that took place in Massachusetts (mostly in and around Springfield) during 1786 and 1787, which some historians believe "fundamentally altered the course of United States' [sic] history." -
Virginia Plan
a proposal by Virginia delegates for a bicameral legislative branch. The plan was drafted by James Madison while he waited for a quorum to assemble at the Constitutional Convention -
Philadelphia Conventtion
Congress called a convention to revise the Articles of Confederation into a more powerful document. -
New Jesery Plan
was a proposal for the structure of the United States Government presented by William Paterson at the Constitutional Convention
