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First permanent English settlement in the New World
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The first legislative assembly in the American colonies.
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It was an agreement of the people on the Mayflower to set up a government to support them when they reach land.
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An armed rebellion led by Nathaniel Bacon against the colony of Jamestown
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The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts
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The French and Indian war was the colonists and the British fighting the French and Indians for western territory
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This prohibited American colonists from settling west of Appalachia.
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This was imposed a tax of six pence per gallon of molasses.
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The colonist had to allow British soldiers to stay in the house and to feed them
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The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed
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The Townshend Acts were a series of measures, passed by the British Parliament in 1767, that taxed goods imported to the American colonies.
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British Army soldiers shot and killed five people while under attack by a mob.
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The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the financially struggling company survive.
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Shadow governments organized by the Patriot leaders of the Thirteen Colonies on the eve of the American Revolution.
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Colonist dressed up as indians and dumped a lot of tea in the bay
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a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies
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The first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.
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A final attempt by the colonists to avoid going to war with Britain during the American Revolution.
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The American colonists declaring independence.
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The colonist declaring independence from Britain with a said statement to them.