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Document that limited the kings power
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A major English constitutional document that sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing.
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Limited the power of English soverign.
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A proposal to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies, suggested by Benjamin Franklin, then a senior leader and a delegate from Pennsylvania, at the Albany Congress in July 1754 in Albany, New York.
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The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars on March 5, 1770.
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A group of colonists protest thirteen years of increasing British oppression, by attacking merchant ships in Boston Harbor and over throwing the tea on board.
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A meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies to create a document of their grievences to send 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 on July 4, 1776.
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Document to announce and explain seperation from Great Britian to form the United States.
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This document served as the United States' first constitution, and was in force from March 1, 1781, until 1789 when the present day Constitution went into effect.
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An armed uprising that took place in Massachusetts
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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 of 1787.
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A proposal for the structure of the United States Government presented by William Paterson at the Constitutional Convention on June 15, 1787
