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A document that King John of Englasn was forced to sign that was a written promise between him snf his subjects.
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The first representative government of North America. The house consisted of 22 members and 15 representatives.
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The signers promised to keep any laws and regulations that would later be established.
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The main purpose was to grant people the basic human rights for freedom of speech, the right to bear arms for defense and be granted the right to a demcratic process.
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The French and Indian War was a struggle over who would control the Ohio River frontier in The New World. The British won and closed the Ohio Valley.
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This act reequired Americans to buy special watermarked paper for newspapers and all legal documents.
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When the colonists threw tea into the Boston Harbour as a direct action against the British government and East India Company.
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The cause was the oppressive British rule of the Amerca colonies and the Boston Tea Party. These were the first two battles of the American Revolution.
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Was instrumental in setting the tone and managing the efforts that would bring the birth of a new nation.
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Stated all men are created equal and that there are certain rights that government should never violate.
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An uprising by Daniel Shays against the harsh treatment of debtors by the court.
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A compromise adopted at the Constituional Covention providing states with equal representation in the Senate.
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A plan proposed at the Constitutional Convention that provided a legislature of two houses with proportional representers.
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A request for equal representation of the states. It was an opposition to the Viriginia Plan.
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Stated that all slaves would count as 3/5 of a person in terms of taxation and representation.
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The convention in Philadelphia of represntatives from each of the old colonies, excluding Rhode Island.
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The Bill of Rights consists of the first ten amendments which was designed to calm the opponents of the Constitution in its original form.
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Rhode Island was the 13th state to be ratified. The ratification was lengthy and listed all the bill of rights and several amendments.
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Protecting the interests oof slaveholders by forbidding Congress the power to tax exports from any other state, and the power to act on the slave trade.
