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Established a council of 25 barons to see King John kept to the clauses like protection from illegal imprisonment, access to swift justice, parliamentary assent for taxation, and scutage limitations. Still influences British government to this day.
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First settlement in the 'New World'.
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First legislative assembly of elected representatives in North America. Had 22 elected representatives, held in a church in Virginia.
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Led by Nathaniel Bacon against Governor William Berkeley. Virginians rose up with Bacon to make the Governor do something about the recent Native American attacks.
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Ensured certain freedoms and ensure a Protestant political supremacy.
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Intellectual movement that was heavily influenced by 17th-century philosophers such as Locke, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Adam Smith.
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Started over land disputes in the Ohio River Valley between the French and English.
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Ended in the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
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Issued by the British that outlawed further colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains to prevent conflict with Native Americans. Angered the colonists who wanted to farm the land.
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A suposed miscommunication caused Einglish soldiers to open fire at colonial protesters. Many were killed.
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Colonists responded to the high British taxes by dumping shiploads of British tea into the Boston Harbor.
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In response to the Boston Tea Party, Britian punished the colonies by paeeing the Intolerable Acts, which supressed the colonist's freedoms.
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In response to the British Parliament's enactment of the Coercive Acts in the American colonies, the first session of the Continental Congress convenes in Philadelphia. Fifty-six delegates from all the colonies except Georgia drafted a declaration of rights and grievances.
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First battle of the Revolutionary War. 'Shot heard round the world'
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Convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun.
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Challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy. The plain language that author Thomas Paine used spoke to the common people of America and was the first work to openly ask for independence from Great Britain.
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Document that declared the colonies freedom from Britian.
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During the American Revolutionary War; 2,100-man British force under command of Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis defeated Major General Nathanael Greene's 4,500 Americans. The British Army sustained such heavy casualties that it was a strategic victory for the Americans.
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British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered his troops in Yorktown, Virginia; ending the Revolutionary War.
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Ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain and the United States of America.
