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Magna Carta is one of the most important documents in history as it established the principle that everyone is subject to the law, even the king, and guarantees the rights of individuals, the right to justice and the right to a fair trial. -
The founding document of the United States, claiming independence from Great Britain. -
After many debates between the delegates of the states, the finally agreed upon proposing a new constitution to replace the Articles of Confederation. The purpose of the constitution was to not allow the Federal government to take control of the whole nation. -
Rights to religion, speech, assembly, press, and petition. -
Right to Bear Arms -
Quartering of Soldiers
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Search and Seizure
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Grand Jury, Double Jeopardy, Self-Incrimination, Due Process
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Rights of Accused in Criminal Prosecutions: Rights to Jury Trial, to Confront Opposing Witnesses and to Counsel.
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Protections against Excessive Bail, Cruel and Unusual Punishment.
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Non-Enumerated Rights
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Jury Trial
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Rights Reserved to States.
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President George Washington sent troops to western Pennsylvania to quell the Whiskey Rebellion, an uprising by citizens who refused to pay a liquor tax that had been imposed
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Suits Against a State
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He created the First Party System and believed in education and political freedoms & equality.
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The Louisiana Territory, the huge swath of land that made up the western Mississippi basin, passed from French colonial rule to Spanish colonial rule and then back to the French before U.S. Pres. Thomas Jefferson pried it away from Napoleon for a final price of some $27 million. Out of it were carved—in their entirety—the states of Louisiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Oklahoma
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Election of President and Vice-President
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U.S. President James Monroe had a set of principles in that decades later would be called the Monroe Doctrine. According to the policy, the United States would not intervene in European affairs
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Stated that any African American people enslaved were not considered citizens and could not receive protection from the federal government.
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Presidential election, Republicans, led by Abraham Lincoln, opposed the expansion of slavery. Lincoln won the election but before his time in office, the seven slave states of the south formed a confederacy which opposed them.
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The year of the Emancipation Proclamation, in the small Pennsylvania crossroads town of Gettysburg, Robert E. Lee’s invading Army of Northern Virginia sustained a defeat so devastating that it sealed the fate of the Confederacy
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The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln. This order stated that the slaves in the 10 rebellious states had to be freed. Also these slaves could work in the army and the armed forces had to recognize them as ex-slaves and treat them no different. -
Abolition of Slavery and Involuntary Servitude
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Protects rights against state infringements, defines citizenship, prohibits states from interfering with privileges and immunities, requires due process and equal protection, punishes states for denying vote, and disqualifies Confederate officials and debts
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Voting Rights
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The Plessy v. Ferguson case upheld a Louisiana state law that allowed for "equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races." -
Popular Election of Senators
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Federal Income Tax
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More than any other single event, the sinking of the unarmed British ocean liner, the Lusitania, by a German submarine (killing, among others, 128 Americans), prompted the U.S. to join the war on the side of the Allies.
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Prohibition
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Women's Right to Vote
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Commencement of Presidential Term and Succession
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Repeal of 18th Amendment (Prohibition)
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Two-Term Limitation on President
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A landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional -
Cooper v. Aaron was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, which denied the school board of Little Rock, Arkansas, the right to delay racial desegregation for 30 months. -
District of Columbia Presidential Vote
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Martin Luther King delivered his famous "I have a dream speech" which expressed how he felt about the equal rights of African Americans. -
Abolition of Poll Tax Requirement in Federal Elections
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Voting Rights act is a law that doesn't allow discrimination in voting. The Act was signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson. -
Presidential Vacancy, Disability and Inability
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Right to Vote at Age 18
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Congressional Compensation