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The "Great Charter" of English liberties, forced from King John by the English Barons and sealed at Runnymede, June 15,1215
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The first permanent english settlement in the Americas.
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The first governing document of the Plymouth Colony.
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The parlimentary Declaration of the rights of the people, by Charles the 1st.
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An Act declaring the rights and liberties of the dubject and settling succession of the crown.
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A meeting in Albany, New York. It was an Early attempt to form a union during the French and Indian War.
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A law passed by British parliment that raised revenue from American Colonies by a duty in the form of a stamp required on all newspapers and legal or commercial documents.
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The shooting of 5 American Colonist, because the British claim they were being attacked. It deepend America's distrust in the British military.
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American Coloniest were mad about a new tax on tea. They disguised as Mohawk Native Americans and boarded 3 british ships, and dumped 342 whole crates of british tea in the Boston harbor.
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Four different things the British did to the American Colonist.
1. Closed Boston's harbor until restitution of tea was restored.
2. Massachusetts colony's charter was anulled and military government was installed.
3. British officials charged with capital offense could go to england to trial.
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The task of the meeting was to define the relationship between the colonist and British government. The colonist united in the belief that the british had no right to tax them.
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The revolution of American colonies against the british. 1775-1783
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Convention of the delegates from the 13 colonies, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after the American Revolution started. They managed colonial efforts and moved slowly toward independance.
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Document recording the proclamation of the second continental congress asserting the freedom and Independance of the 13 colonies from Great Britain.
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A written agreement by the 13th original states, provided a legal symbol of their union by giving the central government no control over the states and their citizens.
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An agreement between large and small states reached during the Philadelphia Convention of 1787, that in part defined the legislative and representation that each state would have.
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Convention of the United States men who drafted the constitution in 1787.
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Movement by New England farmer desperate to be paid for their service in the revolutionary war. Farmer Daniel Shay's took charge of the group and led the attack in springfield, Massachusetts.
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Assembly that drafted the United States Constitution. Meeting was to amend the Articles of Confederation. The delegates decided to replace the articles with a document that replaced the federal government.
