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The very first permanent English Colony was establsihed to provide profit for the mother country.
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This colonial governing body allowed the colonists their first taste of self government.
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The puritans from the Plymouth colony decided to create their own laws which established self governing principles.
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First written constitution by a colony limited the power of government.
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New England merchants traded basic supplies with the West Indies in return for sugar, later Africa was added to the route.
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Law granting religious freedom to all Christians living in the maryland colony.
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England felt that the American Colonies were gaining great profit through overseas trade and wanted a share of the profit.
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Accused of sedition and libel by a royal official who took offense to the newspaper criticism of limits on free expression.
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Many colonists began expressing their religious ideas through new churches and ways of life.
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England and France had been warring on and off for hundreds of years, this time around the colonists wanted in on the action.
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Benjamin Franklins attempt to unite volunteers from all colonies to establish a common defense. The plan didnt work but it was the first time colonists chose to unite against England.
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In an attempt to settle the Natives along the frontier, England banned all the colonial settlement west of the Appalacian mountains.
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Englands latest attempt to get money off of the colonists trading methods, a direct tax on goods regarding any form of paper.
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Tension between colonists and the standing army came to a breaking point when a riot came together outside of a military gathering and it ended with a shot fired into the crowd.
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A tax on tea set by England onto the colonists.
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An effort made to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party. They close the boston harbor and demand compensation for the lost tea.
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Colonists had to house british soldiers when requested.
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Fighting between colonial militias, caused the official beginning of the rivalry between the colonists and the british.
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A committee of colonists draft the letter to King George III to request a ceasefire.
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A popular pamphlet written by Thomas Paine states that it is obvious that England and her American colonies should not remain united.
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Thomas Jefferson drafts a document that a list of complaints against Britian in order to rally the colonists.