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a major English constitutional document that sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing.
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an Act of the Parliament of England passed on 16 December 1689 in the wake of the Glorious Revolution.[2] It was a restatement in statutory form of the Declaration of Right presented by the Convention Parliament to William and Mary in March 1689
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a proposal to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies
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The day of the massacre,British troops were stationed in Boston. They had killed 5 male civilians and injured sixth other.
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A group of protestants protested for thirteen years of incereasing British oppression. They were attacking merchant ships in Boston Harbor.
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a reconvening of the First Continental Congress. Many of the same 56 delegates who attended the first meeting were in attendance at the second,
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announced that the thirteen American colonies,[2] then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire
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a document signed amongst the thirteen original colonies that established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution.
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An armed uprising that took place in Massachusetts. Some historians believe "fundamentally altered the course of United States' history."
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a proposal by Virginia delegates for a bicameral legislative branch