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Magna Carta
It was a charter agreed by King John of England. Created to make peace between the unpopular King and a group of rebel barons, 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, to be implemented through a council of 25 barons. -
Petiton of Right
The petition of right is a major English constitutional document that sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing. It contains restrictions on non-Parliamentary taxation, forced billeting of soldiers, imprisonment without cause, and the use of martial law. -
English Bill of Rights
The English Bill of Rights limited the power of the English sovereign, and was written as an act of Parliament. The Bill of Rights asserted that Englishmen had certain civil and political rights. Catholics were banned from the throne, and Kings and Queens had to swear oaths to maintain Protestantism as the official religion of England. -
Albany Plan of Union
The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government. The Albany Plan was the first important proposal to conceive of the colonies as a collective whole united under one government. -
Boston Massacre
It was an incident where British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others. British troops had been stationed there in order to protect and support crown-appointed colonial officials attempting to enforce unpopular Parliamentary legislation. -
Boston Tea Party
The Sons of Liberty were a group of colonists who protested thirteen years of increasing British oppression, by attacking merchant ships in Boston Harbor. In retaliation, the British close the port, and inflict even harsher penalties. -
First Continental Congress
It was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies. It was called in response to the intolerable acts by the British Parliament in result of the punishing for the Boston Tea Party. -
Second Contenintal Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun. The second Congress managed the colonial war effort, and moved towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. -
Declaration of Independence
Was a statement adopted by the Continental Congress that announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire -
Articles of Condederation
The Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation as the first constitution of the United States. The Articles created a loose confederation of sovereign states and a weak central government, leaving most of the power with the state governments. -
Shay's Rebellion
Shays ' Rebellion was an armed uprising which some historians believe "fundamentally altered the course of United States' history." Revolutionary War veteran Daniel Shays led a group of rebels in rising up first against Massachusetts' courts, and later in marching on the United States' Federal Armory at Springfield in an unsuccessful attempt to seize its weaponry and overthrow the government. -
Virginia Plan
The Virginia Plan proposed a legislative branch consisting of two chambers, with the dual principles of rotation in office and recall applied to the lower house of the national legislature. Each of the states would be represented in proportion to their “Quotas of contribution, or to the number of free inhabitants. -
Philadelphia Convention
In total, 55 delegates from 12 states were present when the Philadelphia Convention began. The Philadelphia Convention got underway with a radical decision to throw out the Articles of Confederation and start fresh developing a framework for strengthening the power of the United States’ federal government. -
New Jersey Plan
Under the New Jersey Plan, the unicameral legislature with one vote per state was inherited from the Articles of Confederation. This position reflected the belief that the states were independent entities and, as they entered the United States of America freely and individually, It also proposed that state governments must be bound by oath to support the Articles, that a policy should be established to handle territorial disputes, and that the offenses deemed as treason should be defined. -
The American Civil War
It was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy. After four years of combat that left over 600,000 Union and Confederate soldiers dead and destroyed much of the South's infrastructure, the Confederacy collapsed and slavery was abolished. -
13th Amendment
Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. Though the amendment formally abolished slavery throughout the United States, factors such as Black Codes, white supremacist violence, and selective enforcement of statutes continued to subject some black Americans to involuntary labor, particularly in the South. -
19th Amendment
Prohibits any United States citizen from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex. The amendment was the culmination of the women's suffrage movement in the United States, which fought at both state and national levels to achieve the vote. -
The Great Depression
It was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. Began soon after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. -
World War II
it was the most destructive war in all of history, its exact cost in human lives is unknown, but casualties in World War II may have totaled 50 million service personnel and civilians killed. It was a war between U.K, U.S., Soviet Union vs. Germany and Japan. -
9/11
They were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the United States in New York City and the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. The attacks killed 2,996 people and caused at least $10 billion in property and infrastructure damage.
