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Magna Carta
Document written to protect rights and property against a tyrannical king. -
Petition of Rights
A major constituional document that set out the specific liverties of the subject that the king is proibited from infringing. -
English Bill of Rights
Act by Parliment in England to limit the power of the crown. -
Albany Plan of Union
Proposal suggested by Ben Franklin to create a unified government. "Under one government as far as might be nessesary for the defense and other general important purposes." -
The Sugar Act
Parliment passed a modified version of The Sugar and Molassas Act to place more taxes on goods such as sugar, wine, coffee, ect. -
Boston Massacre
The killing of five colonists by British regulars caused by the cululation of tensions in the American colonies. -
Boston Tea Party
The Sons of Liberty and Samuel Adams boarded ships in Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard to protest British rule. -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774 at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. It was called in response to "The passage of the Coercive Acts" (also known as Intolerable Acts by the Colonial Americans) by the British Parliament. The Intolerable Acts had punished Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party. -
Second Continental Congress
Convention of delegates that met soon after the warfare of the American Revolution began. They managed the colonial war effort and moved incrementally toward independance. -
De laration of Independance
A document that expressed the convictions in the minds and hearts of the American people and summerized the philosophy of "self evident truths". It also set forth a list of grevances against the King of England in order to justify before the world the reasions to break off from the mother country. -
Independance Day
The day the 13 colonies claimed their independance from England, the event the acted as the landmark birth of the United States of America. -
Articles of Confederation
Document signed amongst the 13 original colognies that established the USA as a confederation of soverign states and served as Americas first consititution. -
End of Revolutionary War
The end of the rebellion of the 13 American colonies and we became offically seperated from England. -
Shay's Rebellion
The armed uprising in Massachusetes led by Daniel Shay in an attempt to overtake the courts and then Federal Reserve to eventually overthrow the American government. This act way feuled by precieved economic terrorism and growing disaffection with State and Federal governemtn. -
Philadelphia Convention
A convetnion that was called to revise the Articles of Confederation into a more powerful document. 55 delagates from 12 states were present to create a more effective and unified consitution. -
Virginia Plan
The plan that acted as the foundation of the Consititution and proposed national government with checks and balances. -
New Jersey Plan
Widely known as the "Small State Plan", this was a proposal for the structure of the United States government presented by William Patterson at the Consitutional convention. -
War of 1812
United States declared war on Britian over British interferance with American maritian shipping and westward expansion. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
A landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States that oulawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national orgin. -
9/11
A seris of coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the US in New York City. This attack killed 2,996 and caused $10 billion in property and infrastructure damage.
