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Is an English charter, originally issued in the year 1215 and reissued later in the 13th century in modified versions.
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The Petition of Right is 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 declareing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and Setleing the Succession of the Crowne.
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It was an early attempt at forming a union of the colonies "under one government as far as might be necessary for defense and other general important purposes"
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British Army soldiers killed five civilian men.
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The Boston Tea Party was a direct action by colonists in Boston against the British government and the monopolistic East India Company that controlled all the tea imported into the colonies.
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A convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting on May 10, 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun.
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The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from twelve British North American colonies that met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution.
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The Declaration of Independence was 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.
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An agreement among the 13 founding states that legally 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 central and western Massachusetts
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Addressed problems in governing the United States of America, which had been operating under the Articles of Confederation following independence from Great Britain.
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A proposal by Virginia delegates for a bicameral legislative branch.
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A proposal for the structure of the United States Government proposed by William Paterson at the Constitutional Convention on June 15, 1787.
