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It promised the protection of church rights, protection for the barons from illegal imprisonment, access to swift justice, and limitations on feudal payments to the Crown
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Day and Month Unsure The settlement of Jamestown
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The first governing document of Plymouth Colony
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Day & Month Unsure A major English constitutional document that sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing.
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An act that the Parliament of England passed on December 16, 1689. The Bill creates separation of powers, limits the powers of the king and queen, enhances the democratic election and bolsters freedom of speech.
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Day Unsure The Albany Plan of Union was a proposal to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies, suggested by Benjamin Franklin.
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An act of the British Parliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents.
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The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob.
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The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773.
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The Intolerable Acts was the American Patriots' name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party.
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The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution.
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The begining of the American Revolution against Great Britain.
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The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775.
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The Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Continental Congress meeting at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states.
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After considerable debate and alteration, the Articles of Confederation were adopted by the Continental Congress on November 15, 1777.
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Day and Month Unsure Shays' Rebellion is the name given to a series of protests in 1786 and 1787 by American farmers against state and local enforcement of tax collections and judgments for debt.
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Day Unsure The Constitutional Convention took place from May 25 to September 17, 1787 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to address problems in governing the United States of America, which had
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The Constitutional Convention took place from May 25 to September 17, 1787 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to address problems in governing the United States of America, which had been operating under the Articles of Confederation
