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influenced the constitution and constitutional rights in the us
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first governing document of Plymoth Colony.
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influenced a fight to see who was supreme in english government
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series of laws that restricted the use of foreign shipping for trade between England.
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a list of rights that the authors thought members of a constitutional monarchy ought to have
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a proclomation that prohibited white settlement on indian land
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revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain
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a direct tax imposed by the British Parliament specifically on the colonies of British America
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after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor
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series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 relating to Britain's colonies in North America
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convention of delegates from twelve of the thirteen North American colonies
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first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War
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convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies
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a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire
