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Jun 15, 1215
Magna Carta
Promised the protection of church rights, protection for the barons from illegal imprisonment access to swift justice. -
Petition of Right
Major English constitutional documnet that sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing -
Englsih Bill of Rights
Englsih precursor of the Constitution, limited the power of englsih sovereign and was written as an aact of parliament. -
Albany Plan of Union
Plan to place the British Americna Colonies under a more centeralized government. -
Boston Massacre
Street fight that occured between a patriot mob and British soldiers. Severaal colonists were killed. -
Boston Tea Party
A group of colonies protest thirteen years of increasing British appression by attacking merchants ships in Boston Harbor. British close the port and inflict harsher penalties. -
First Continental Congress
A meeting of deleggates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met at Carpenters Hall in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. -
Second Continentaal Congress
Convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775. They managaed the colony war effort. -
Decleration of Independence
Fundamnetal documnet establishing of the United States as a nation. Decleration was ordered and approved by the Continental Congress and written largely by Thomas Jefferson. -
Articles of Confederation
First Constitution of the United States on Nov 15, 1777. Ratification of the articles of all thirteen states did not occur until March 1, 1781. -
Shay's Rebellion
Was an armed uprising that took place in Massachusettes during the 1780's. -
Philadelphia Convention
Gathering that drafted the Constitution of the United States, this meeting designed a government with separate legislative, executive, and judical branches. -
Virginia Plan
Virginia plan also known as the Randolph plan, was a proposal by virginia delegates for a bicameral legislative branch -
New Jersey Plan
Proposal for the structture of the United States Governement presented by Williams Paterson at the Constitutional Convention
