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Jamestown was a settlement in the Colony of Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas
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the first legislative assembly of elected representatives in North America.
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the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was a contract in which the settlers consented to follow the compact's rules and regulations for the sake of order and survival.
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the traditional site of disembarkation of William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims who founded Plymouth Colony in 1620
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a law mandating religious tolerance for trinitarian Christians.
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an armed rebellion by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
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was the overthrow of King James II of England by a union of English Parliamentarians with the Dutch stadtholder William of orange
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an Act of the Parliament of England passed on 16 December 1689. It laid out certain basic right for people
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A series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693
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a German American printer, publisher, editor and journalist in New York City. He was a defendant in a landmark legal case in American jurisprudence, known as "The Zenger Trial",
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the part of the 100 year war that took place in the American colonies
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imposed a direct tax by the British Parliament specifically on the colonies of British America, and it required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp
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forbade settlers from settling past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. marked the endo of the French and Indian war.
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provided that Great Britain would house its soldiers in American barracks and public houses
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an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765, stated that Parliament's authority was the same in America as in Britain and added Parliament's authority to pass laws that were binding on the American colonies.
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an incident in which British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others.
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an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. Its objective was to reduce the massive amounts of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive.
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a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Disguised as American Indians, the demonstrators destroyed the entire supply of tea sent by the East India Company
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a convention of delegates from twelve colonies that met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. It was called in response to the intolerable acts by the British Parliament.
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a convention of delegates from the 13 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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Document requesting American Colonies freedom from England
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Document that ended the American Revolutionary War
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