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Jun 15, 1215
Magna Carta
- was tge 1st document forced onto a King of England by a group of his subjects, the feudal barons, in an attempt to limit his powers by law and protect their priviledges
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Settlement of Jamestown
- was the 1st successful English settlement on the mainland of North America, named after King James I of England, founded in the colony of Virginia
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Mayflower Compact Written
- was the 1st governing document of Plymouth Colony written by Separatists, known as the "Saints," fleeing from religious persecution by King James of Great Britain
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Petition of Right
- a major English constitutional document that sets out specific liberties of the subject that the King is prohibited from infringing
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English Bill of Rights
- was a restatement in statutory form of the Declaration of Rights presented by the Convention of Parliament to William and Mary, inviting them to become joinit sovereign of England
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Albany Plan of Union
- was a proposal to create a unified government for the 13 colonies
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Stamp Act
- any legislation that requires a tax to be paid on the transfer of certaon documents; those who pay will receive an official stamp on their documents, making them legal
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Boston Massacre
- British army soldiers killed 5 cilivian men and injuried 6 others after attempting to enforce unpopular Parlimentary legislature
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Boston Tea Party
- was a polotical protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, a city in the British coloy of Massachusetts, against the tax policy of the British government and the East India Company that controlled all the tea imported into the colonies
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Intolerable Acts
- a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliment relating to Massachusetts after the Boston Tea Party which stripped it of self-government and historic rights
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First Continental Congress
- was a convention of delegates from 12 colonies that met at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, PA early in the American Revolution which was called in response to the passage of the Intolerable Acts
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American Revolution Begins
- was a political upheaval during the last half of the 18th century in which the 13 colonies joined together to break from the British Empire, combiningto become the U.S.
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Second Continental Congress
meeting soon after warfare of the American Revolutionary War had begun that managed the colonial war effort and moved incrementally towards independence -
Declaration of Independence
- a statement adopted by the Constitutional Congress which announced that the 13 colonies regarded themselves as independent states and no longer part of the British Empire
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Articles of Confederation
- was an agreement among the 13 founding states that established the U.S. as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its 1st constitution
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Shay's Rebellion
- was an armed uprising that took place in central and western Massachusetts which was na,ed after Daniel Shay, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War and one of the rebel leaders; protesters were unhappy with the way goverment was working
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Philadelphia Convention
- addressed problems in governing the U.S. which had been operationg under the Articles of Confederation following independence from Great Britain
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Constitutional Convention
- another name for the Philadelphia Convention
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Connecticut Compromise
- was an agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention that defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would be under the U.S. Constitution
