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The first documents forced onto a King of England in order to limit his power and protect the peoples priveleges.
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The first legislative house in the early English colonies at a church in Jamestown. Met once a year to make laws that could be vetoed by the governor or the directors of the Virginia Company.
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The first official governing document of the Plymouth Colony for fleeing from religious persectution by King James. Signed aboard the ship.
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Granted people basic human rights for freedom of speech, right to bear arms for defense and be granted the right to a democratic process which would limit the Monarch rule.
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The final Colonial War nicknamed the "seven years war". Involved between Austria, England, France, Great Britain, Prussia, and Sweden
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A tax on all papers the American colonists used such as, stamps, newspapers, documents, etc.
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Members of the Sons of Liberty dressed as indians and went aboard an English ship containing boxes of tea and dumped them into the boston harbor in frsutration of the Tea Act.
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The thirteen colonies succeedded from England in order to form a new nation.
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A convention of delegates from twelve colonies called in response to the passage of the Coercive Acts by the British Parliment punishing Boston for the Boston Tea Party.
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Battles fought in these towns was the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War. British soldiers were told to sneak in and retrive important military supplies. The miltia were notified weeks earlier that they might be at risk so they had moved them to a diferent location.
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Convention of delegates from all thirteen colonies met in Pittsburg, Philedelphia shortly after the revolutionary war had started to manage war effort, making armies and directing stregeties.
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served as the thirteen colonies first constitution.
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Ended the American Revolutionary War.
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Series of protests by American farmers against state and local enforcement of tax collections and judgements for debt.
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Men came here to compose the U.S. Constituion
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Traced the outlines of what would soon become the U.S. Constituion.
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This was put foward to end the conflict between the big states and the small states.
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Provided for a very strong central government and representation by population.
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An agreement between Northern and Southern states that only 3/5 of the slave population was counted for the purpose of taxation and representation in Congress.
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The first ten commandments to the United States Constituion.
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Rhode Island ratified from the constituion.
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Northern states were concerned that the economy was relying too much on slavery so they banned slave importation.
