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Magna Carta
Magna Carta, which also means, ‘The Great Charter’, was originally issued by King John of England as a practical solution to the political crisis in 1215. The magna Carta established the principle that everybody, including the king, was subject to the law. -
Jamestown Settled
settlement in the colony of Virginia, was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. They came during winter time and had a hard time succeeding asa colony. Soon omen and more supplies came and the community thrived. The leader of James town was Captain James Smith. -
Mayflower Compact
First governing document of Plymouth Colony. Written by seperatist Congresionalist who called themselves saints, they were fleeing from religios pursecution by King James of England -
Petition of Rights
Parliament forced the King to assent to the Petition of Right. This asked for a settlement of Parliament's complaints against the King's non-parliamentary taxation and imprisonments without trial, plus the unlawfulness of martial law and forced billets -
English Bill of Rights
An act that the Parliment of England passed, The bill created seperation of powers,limits the powers of the king and queen, enhances the democratic election, and bolsters freedom of speech. -
Albany Plan of Union
Delegates from most of the northern colonies and representatives from the Six Iroquois Nations met in New York. There they adopted a plan drafted by Benjamin Franklin. Under this plan each colonial legislature would elect delegates to an American continental assembly presided over by a royal governor. -
Stamp Act
The act of British Parliment that took money from American colonies by imposing stamps on newspapers , legal documents, and playing cards. Colonial opposition led to the act's repeal. -
Boston Massacre
a riot in Boston arising from the resentment of Boston colonists toward British troops quartered in the city, in which the troops fired on the mob and killed several persons. -
Boston Tea Party
a raid on three British ships in Boston Harbor in which Boston colonists, disguised as Indians, threw the contents of several hundred chests of tea into the harbor as a protest against British taxes on tea and against the monopoly granted the East India Company. -
intolerable acts
Laws passed by British Parliment after the Boston Tea Party, they were meant to punish Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment in the Boston Harbor. -
First ContInental Congress
a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met to petition the British government for a redress of grievances. -
American Revolution
American apheaval during which the coloniests of the thirteen colonies rejected the British monrchy and aristocracy and overthrew the authority of Great Britian and founded the United States of America -
Second Continental Congress
Convention of delegates from the thirteen colonies. The secnd Congres managed the colonial war effort, and moved toward independence . -
Declaration of Independence
formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the thirteen American colonies from great Britian -
Shay's Rebellion
Series of protests by American farmers against state and local enfircement of tax collections and judgements for debt, Danial Shay was a former captian of the Continental army -
Articles of Confederation
An agreement among the thirteen original states that provided a loose federal government before the Constitution went into effect in 1789. There was no chief executive or judiciary, and the legislature of the Confederation had no authority to collect taxes. -
Constitutional Convention
Called to create the first constitution of a political unit or to entirely designed to come up with a government, all thirteen colonies were invited -
Connecticut Compromise
also known as Sherman's Compromise, that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention that in part defined the legislative structure and represents that each state would have uder the U.S. constitution , required the upper house to be weighed eqully between the states, each would have two rpresentatives in the upper house -
Philadelphia Convention
The gathering that drefted the Constitution of the United States. All states were invited to send delegates. The convention designed a government with seperate legeslative, executive, and judicial branches.
