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The Jamestown Settlement Colony was the first successful English settlement on the mainland of North America.
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First governing document of Plymouth Colony.
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major English constitutional document that sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited -
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Direct tax imposed by the British Parliament on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used.
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incident that led to the deaths of five civilians at the hands of British troops.
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was an action by colonists in Boston against the British Government.
Officials refused to turn three shipload of taxed tea to Britian, a group of colonists boarded the ships & destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbour. -
convention of delegates from twelve of the thirteen North American colonies that met on September 5, 1774
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Name used to describe a series of five laws passed by the British Parliament. -
1775-1783
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Convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that met beginning on May 10, 1775
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The nation's most cherished symbol of liberty an freedom.
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1786-1787.
Was an armed uprising in central and western Massachusetts. -
from May 25 to September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Philadelphia Convention
From May 25 to September 17, 1787 -
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Agreement between large & small states during the Constitutional Convenction.
