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Jamestown was the first settlement to survive in America.
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First legislature in the English colonies.First time met was in a church in Jamestown.
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First written compact. Signed by 41 Englishmen.
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This rebellion was against William Berkeley.Bacons rebellion was armed rebellion led by Nathaniel Bacon.
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Series of hearings and prosecutions of people acccused of witch craft. Based in Massachusetts.
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Known as the Zenger Trial. He was a defendant in a legal case in American jurisprudence.
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In europe sweeden austria and france were allied to destroy the power of fredrick the great. They battled fot the colonial domination in North America.
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The Proclamation of 1763 closed off the frontier to colonial expansion. This royal proclamation put a dampen to this celebration
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This new tax was forced on all Americans and required them to pay taxes. They paid a tax on peice of paper used
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This act was put into place by the British to make colonists to help pay for troops. It allowed Britsish soldiers to stay in the colonist houses
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This act was accompanied by the repeal of the stamp act. They did this because the boycotting was hurting british trade
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Several colonist were killed and led to this comapign. A street fight between a patriot mob throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks.
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The Tea Act was to reduce the maddive surpllus of tea held by the financially troubled British East India. This act was the leading factor in the start of the Revolution
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Patriots protested on taxes in America tea importation granted by Parliment to East India Company. They took 342 chests of tea at midnight and raided 3 ships and threw them in the harbor.
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Met in Carpenters Hall. First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from 12 colonies
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Convention of delegates from the 13 colonies. with this they decided to break from Briitan
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Americans were tired of fighting for their own rights from Britian. Declaration of Indepedence declared the colonies independent from Englad
