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The first successful English settlement
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The Mayflower Compact was drawn up with fair and equal laws, for the general good of the settlement and with the will of the majority.
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John Locke contributes to the constitution for the Carolina colony
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The Albany Congress proposes that the colonies unite.
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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
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Boston troops fired into a crowd of citizens and killed 5 people.
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The act was not intended to raise revenue in the American colonies, and in fact imposed no new taxes. It was designed to prop up the East India Company which was floundering financially and burdened with eighteen million pounds of unsold tea.
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Colonist dressed in Mohawks and dumped tea into the Boston Harbor to prevent British tax on tea
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These two battles spark the revolution.
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The declaration was signed proclaiming the new nation