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Agreement among the 13 founding states that established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution.
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Virginia was the first legislative assembly of elected representatives in North America.
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The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony.
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The Bill of Rights is an Act of the Parliament of England
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Convention of delegates from the thirteen colonies.
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American name for the "7 years war"
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imposed direct tax by the British Parliament
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Officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain
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The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from twelve colonies
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War
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It announced that the 13 American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire.
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Was a proposal for the structure of the United States Government
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Shays' Rebellion was an armed uprising that took place in central and western Massachusetts
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A proposal by Virginia delegates
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The Three-Fifths Compromise was a compromise between Southern and Northern states
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An agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention in 1787
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addressed problems in governing the United States of America
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Agreement during the Constitutional Convention of 1787, protecting the interests of slaveholders, that forbid Congress the power to act on the slave trade for twenty years.
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The Bill Of Rights is a collective name for the first ten amendments
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Officially the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
