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Fis document to ever limit the power of the king.
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English document sets specific rules the king must abide by.
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Precursor of Declaration of idependence, The English Bill of Rights limited the power of the English sovereign, and was written as an act of Parliament.
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proposal to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies, suggested by Benjamin Franklin
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British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others. They fired into the crowd, without orders, instantly killing three people and wounding others. Two more people died later of wounds sustained in the incident.
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Group of people protest British opression by attacking merchant ships in boston's harbor.
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Meeting of 12 delegates from the colonies, met to consider boycotting britian and to send complaints to the king
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The second Congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence
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Statement saing that the 13 colonies were regaurding themselves as soverign states, seperate from britan.
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Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation, the first constitution of the United States, on November 15, 1777. However, ratification of the Articles of Confederation by all thirteen states did not occur until March 1, 1781.
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was an armed uprising that took place in Massachusetts, which some historians believe "fundamentally altered the course of United States' history."
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was a proposal for the structure of the United States Government presented by William Paterson at the Constitutional Convention
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was a proposal by Virginia delegates for a bicameral legislative branch. The plan was drafted by James Madison
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Discussed new form of goverment called the Virgina plan
