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This document was signed and we borrowed the right to trial, and gives us protection against having our life, liberty, and property away. Our constitution "borrowed" this from the Magna Carta.
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This document was signed on November 11, 1620 and it states settlement laws for the new people arriving in Massachusetts.
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This document was signed on the seventh of June and it limits the amount of power a ruler has.
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This act took away the ability to trade with the colonies, only the "parent" country so to speak. So with America, no one could trade with the thirteen colonies, just England and then England would ship our goods to us.
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Parlement passed this document document to make it so that there would be no cruel and unsuaual punishment.
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This proclamation was made to close off the expansion of the colonies. Britian made this so that they could keep better track of their colonies.
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This was an act used to limit the amount of imported sugar. Each time someone imported sugar or molasses, they had to pay a tax of six cents per every gallon of imported sugar/molasses.
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The Stamp Act of 1765 put tax on stamps and makes us pay extra for a stamp instead of no tax on stamps or anything.
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The Boston Tea party was when a group of people dressed as Indians got onto a tea ship and dumped pounds and pounds of tea into the Boston harbor.
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This act gave us the Boston Port, quartering, administrstion act of justice, and the Massachuttes acts.
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This was where a group of people met from every colony, except Virginia, and they created the Declaration of Rights.
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These were shot at Lexington and Concord, and these first shots started the revolution. This was an important event beacause if this hadn't have happened then America might still be under Englands rule since we never tried to become independent.
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This congress contained the same people that were in the First Continental Congress. They met a second time to try and compromise again with Great Britian.
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This was the document that America presented to England to basically say that we don't want to be part of their contry anymore and that we wanted to be our own country and live by our rules, and not King George's.
