Documents to Know

(1215) It limited the Power of the English King; symbolic of limited gov for Colonist.

• Federalist Papers
• Treaty of Paris
• Magna Carta
• Bill of rights

(1689) Gave Englishmen certain rights like "Trial by Jury"

• Federalist Papers
• Mayflower Compact
• Virginia House of Burgesses
• English Bill of Rights

(1619) Beginning of representative governing in the colonies

• Virginia House of Burgesses
• Bill of Rights
• Declaration of Independence
• Monroe Doctrine

(1620) Rules established self-government by Pilgrims at Plymouth

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
• Federalist Paper
• Mayflower Compact
• U.S Bill of Rights

First written Constitution in America, Idea of Representative Government. 

• Treaty of Paris
• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
• Federalist Papers
• Mayflower Compact

(1776) claimed American Colonies free from British Control, listed grievances (complaints) against the King. Unalienable Rights: Life, Liberty, and the Persuit of Happiness

• Declaration of Independence
• Treaty of Paris
• Federalist Papers
• U.S Constitution

(1783) Britain recognizes colonies as an independent nation, it ends the American Revolution

• Treaty of Ghent
• Treaty of Paris
• Treaty of Hamburg
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

1791 Series of essays written to help support and ratify the Constitution, written by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay

• Compromise of 1850
• English Papers
• Mayflower Compact
• Federalist Papers

(1787) Drafted at Philadelphia Convention, Supreme Law of the Land, outlines how government works and the rights of U.S citizens.

• U.S Constitution
• Federalist Papers
• Virginia House of Burgesses
• Articles of Confederation

(1791) First 10 Amendments to the Constitution, guarantees certain individual rights such as speech, religion, trail by jury

• English Bill of Rights
• Bill of Rights
• U.S Constitution
• Declaration of Independence