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Period: Feb 2, 1200 to
History Shall Be Known
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Jun 15, 1215
Magna Carta
The Magna Carta is also known as the Great Charter and was signed in 1215. The Magna Carta limited the powers of the English King and guaranteed certain fundamental rights. -
Petition of Rights
The Petition of Rights is a document signed in 1628 the required the English King to obey the law of land and increased the influence of Parliament. -
English Bill of Rights
The English Bill of Rights is a document signed in 1689 that required free elections and guaranteed many basic rights, such as due process and trial by jury, to all English citizens. -
Albany Plan of Union
The Albany Plan of Union was a proposal to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies. This was suggested by Benjamin Franklin in 1754. -
Boston Massacre
During the Boston Massacre, five clonists were killed by British regulars in 1770. It's known as the street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. -
Boston Tea Party
This Boston Tea Party was an act of American colonial defiance served as a protest against taxation. On the night of December 16, 1773, Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. -
First Colonial Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies that met on September 5. There was a Decleration of Rights sent to King George that protested Britain's colonial policies. It urged colonists to boycott trade with England until hated laws were repealed. -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun. A continental army was created and George Washington was mane commaner- in- cheif. This congress became America's first national government, from 1776- 1781. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence articulates the fundamental ideas that form the American nation. It states that all men are created free and equal and possess the same inherent, natural rights -
Articles of confederation
The Articles of Confederation was the first constitution of the United States.The Articles helped create a loose confederation of sovereign states and a weak central government, leaving most of the power with the state governments. -
Shay's Rebellion
Shays’ Rebellion was the name given to a series of protests in 1786 and 1787 by American farmers against state and local enforcement of tax collections and judgments for debt. -
Philadelphia Convention
The Philadelphia Convention was created to address problems in governing the United States of America, which had been operating under the Articles of Confederation following independence from Great Britain. -
Virginia Plan
Written primarily by fellow Virginian James Madison, the plan traced the broad outlines of what would become the U.S. Constitution: a national government consisting of three branches with checks and balances to prevent the abuse of power -
New Jersey Plan
The New Jersey Plan was one option as to how the United States would be governed. The Plan called for each state to have one vote in Congress instead of the number of votes being based on population. This was to protect the equality of the states regardless of population size.
