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Required King John of England to proclaim certain liberties and his will was not arbitrary
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104 settlers sailed from London instructed to settle Virginia, find gold, and seek a water route to the Orient
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a written agreement composed by a consensus of the new Settlers arriving at New Plymouth
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Major English constitutional document that sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing.
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An Act Declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Settling the Succession of the Crown
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Proposed by Ben Franklin and each colonial 69 would elect delegates
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required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper
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Death of 5 civilians at the hands of redcoats
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Direct action by Boston against the british government
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Convention of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies
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a series of laws passed by the british parliament
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upheaval during the last half of the 18th century in which thirteen colonies in North America joined together to break free from the British Empire
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Met after the Revoluntionary War
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announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were now independent states
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1st Constitution of the U.S.
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was an armed uprising in central and western Massachusetts
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Met to address problems in the governing in the U.S.
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agreement between large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure