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-America's first permanent English colony
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Was the first democratically-elected legislative body in the British American colonies.
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Founded by William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims
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First agreement for self-government to be created and enforced in America
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-A Constitution for the colonial government of Hartford
-Similar to the government that Massachusetts had set up -
A law mandating religious tolerance for Trinitarian Christians
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An armed rebellion by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against Governor William Berkeley
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The overthrow of King James II of England by a union of English Parliamentarians
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British Law passed by the Parliament of Great Britain that declared the rights and liberties of the people
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A series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts
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-Printed the New York Weekly Journal
-Helped spread revolutionary ideas -
Battles between the British and the French/Indian forces for land in America
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A plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies, suggested by Benjamin Franklin
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Created after French and Indian War which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains
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Required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies
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New tax imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used.
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Declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act
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An incident in which British Army shot and killed people while under attack by a mob
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Was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouse and to help the struggling company survive
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Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard
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A meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies who met at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia
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Managed Colonial war effort and moved incrementally towards independence
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The formal statement written by thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain
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Ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain and the United States of America
