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Magna Carta
Magna Carta is a charter of liberties when the English people forced King John to give his assert in June 1215. Part 2 of Magna Carta is when it was a document to guarantee of rights and privileges. Magna Carta was written in Latin. -
Petition of Right
The Petition of Right is a huge document written in the constitution that sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing. King Charles signed the Petition of Right. -
Stamp Act
The Stamp Act was an act that imposed a direct tax on the colonies of British America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London. It carried an embossed revenue stamp. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was also known as the Incident on King Street. It;s when British army soldiers shot and murdered people during an intense attack with the mob. -
Boston Tea Party
Boston Tea Party is when Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston Harbor and threw 342 chests of tea in the water. They also dressed up and acted like Native Americans to blame it on them. This event occurred on the night of December 16th, 1773. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts was a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party.They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance of throwing a large tea shipment into Boston Harbor in reaction to being taxed by the British. -
Albany Plan of Union
The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to create a unified government for 13 colonies. This plan was suggested and created by Benjamin Franklin, and from a delegate in Pennsylvania. Even though they thought it was a good idea, the British rejected the plan not once, but twice. -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from the 12 of the 13 colonies. One major decision they made in that meeting, was to boycott all contact with British goods. All of the states went to the meeting besides Georgia. -
American Revolution begins
The American Revolution really begin because of the colonists militia exchanged gunfire at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts. This was also known as the the" shot heard round the world," -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress managed the colonial war effort, and move immediately towards independence. They did that by adopting the Deceleration of Independence. In the second meeting they agreed that a Continental Army would be created. -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is a written document that announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer under British rule. With this happening they created their own nation, The United States of America. -
Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation is the original version of the constitution, until it was adopted my the new and regular version of the constitution in 1781. John Dickinson was the original writer of The Articles of Confederation. -
Shay's Rebellion
Shay's Rebellion was an uprising against perceived economic and civil rights injustices. In 1787, the rebels marched on the United States Armory at Springfield in an unsuccessful attempt to seize its weaponry and overthrow the government. This occurred in Massachusetts. -
Connecticut Compromise
Connecticut Compromise was an agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States Constitution. -
Philadelphia Convention
The Philadelphia Convention was really intended to Revise the Articles of Confederation, but that ended up turning into the invention of the United States Constitution. The delegates elected George Washington to preside over the convention.
