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The first permanent English colony. Main crop was tobacco
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Allowed the colonies to experience self government. Representatives from each burgess would meet to establish taxes and laws for their area.
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The Plymouth Puritans' own set of laws that established majority rule.
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The first colonial constitution. Limited governmental powers, majority rule, consent of people, protected minority rights.
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The trade route between America, the West Indies, and Africa. Sugar, Molasses, slaves, and basic supplies were circulated throughout the trade route.
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The granting of religious freedom to all Christistians in the Maryland colony.
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A beneficial system to the mother country of more exports than imports.
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The economic system of exporting more than importing
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England put a restriction on American trade so they could make more profits and have more control over it.
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Accused of sedition and libel. He was put on trial and was found innocent. The basis of freedom of the press.
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Colonists began to break free of the traditonal Church of England.
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The fight between England and the colonist and the French and Native Americans over land.
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Benjamin Franklin's plan to unite all the colonies for a common defense.
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In an agreement with the Native Americans, England stopped colonist settlements to the west of the Appalachian Mountains.
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The taxing on all paper in the colonies.
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A group of British shoot at colonists causing casualties .
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Laws set to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party. Closed harbors and gave the colonists a curfew.
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Colonists were forced to feed and house British soldiers.
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Shipped tea directly to the colonies and lowered the shipping price.
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The start of the revolutiionary war.
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A letter written to King George III asking for an end to the fighting. He refuses to read it.
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A pamphlet that talks about how different England and the colonies were and how the two could no longer unite.
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A document that listed complaints against Britain and explained America's reason for declaring independence.