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First permanent English settlement.
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Colonists could make their own laws.
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Ideas on self government and majority.
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Nathaniel Bacon led frontiersmen in a rebellion against the governor of Virginia.
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100 arrested and tried for witchcraft, 20 executed, mostly women and girls.
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Voiced opinions critical of the New York governor.
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British colonies fought against the French and their Native American Allies.
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Forbade settlers from settling past the Appalachians.
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Required tax on every piece of printed paper.
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Gave British soldiers permission to live in colonists houses.
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Stated that British could tax in the colonies like they could in Britain.
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British soldiers killed 5 colonists.
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Made colonists purchase tea from Britain.
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Colonists threw tea from British ships into the Boston harbor.
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Meeting of delegates from all colonies except Georgia.
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Meeting of delegates from all 13 colonies.
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Declared independence from Great Britain.
