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The charter of English political and civil liberties granted by King John at Runnymede in June 1215. The Magna Carta marked a turning point in world history.
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It was the first permanent English colony. It was founded 13 years before the Pilgrims landed in Massachussets.
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The first Governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by the Separatists. The Mayflower Compact was established because the people of the Mayflower wanted a government.
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This document cited the Magna Carta and reminded Charles I that the law gave Englishmen their rights, not the king.
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The English Bill of Rights was enacted by the English Parliament and singed into law by King William III. It is one of the fundamental documents of English constitutional law, and marks a important time in the progression of English society. It helped build the scoiety off a rule of a monarch, to a nation of free citizens with inalienable rights.
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The plan was adopted on July 10, 1754, by representatives from seven of the British North American colonies.Although it was never carried out, it was the first important plan that conceived that colonies as a whole united under one governement,
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Imposed a direct tax by the British Parliament specifically on the colonies of British America. This required that many printed materials in the colonies were to be produced on stamped paper produced in London. This was another reason lead to the Revolution War.
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There were tensions between the American colonists and the British in early 1770 and when a British soldies got outraged from being hit with a snowball set fire. This resulted in 5 colonists to be killed. There was a tension between the British and Americans, becuase Britain government wanted to raise taxes and take control over the colonies. The Boston Massacre helped unite the colonies against Britain and help gain American Independence,
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The Boston Tea Party took place in 1773. This occurred becuase Massachusetts Patriots, were protesting the high cost of tax on tea being imported. They protested by taking 342 chests of tea and throwing them into the harbor.
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It was convention of delegates from twelve colonies, which Georgia was not present. This meeting was held on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, The Continental Congress passed the Declaration of Independence and it set important issues for the government instituted under the Constitution in 1789.
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The Intolerable Acts were a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament after the Boston Tea Party. It took away self-government in Massachusetts, as wells as historic rights. This made the Thirteen Colonies outraged. They were key developments in the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775.
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The American Revolution begins because of the Boston Massacre, Boycotting, and The Boston Tea Party.
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The Second Continental Congress met, after the Battles of Lexington and Concord. The Second Continental Congress decided many important things. For example, they decided to completely break away from Great Britain. On May 15, 1776, they decided to officially put the colonies in a state of defense.
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This document declared that the 13 colonies were seperate independant states. Before this they belonged to the control of the British.
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A written agreement by the thirteen original states, ratified in 1781. This provided a legal symbol of their union by giving their central government no coercive power over the states or their citizens.
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It was an armed uprising that took place in central and western Massachusetts in 1786 and 1787. There were many factors to this rebellion for example, financial difficulties brought about by a post-war economic depression, a credit squeeze caused by a lack of hard currency, and fiscally harsh government policies instituted in 1785 to solve the state's debt problems.
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The convetion took place to state problems in governing the United States of America, which had been under the Articles of Confederation. This was after following the independence from Great Britain. The convention was intending on fixing the Article of Confederation, but ended in creating a new governement. The end result of this convention was the making of the Constitution.
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It was also known as the Philadelphia Convention took place from May 25 to September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, It took place to discuss problems in governing the United States of America, which had been operating under the Articles of Confederation following independence from Great Britain.
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It was an agreement that large and small states reached, that in the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States Constitution. It also contained the bicameral legislature.
