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A carter used by king John to make peace between the unpopular King and a group of rebel barons, it promised the protection of church rights, protection for the barons from illegal imprisonment, access to swift justice, and limitations on feudal payments to the Crown, to be implemented through a council of 25 barons
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An English precursor of the Constitution, along with the Magna Carta and the Petition of Right.
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A proposal to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies.
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A street fight between a patriot mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers.
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A group of colonists protest thirteen years of increasing British oppression, by attacking merchant ships in Boston Harbor.
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A meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies.
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A convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun.
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The first constitution of the United States.
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An armed uprising that took place in Massachusetts,which 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.
