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Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement in North America. Jamestown is the birthplace of America.
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The first legislative assembly of elected represenatives in North America. Was established by the Virginia Company, First meeting.
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The first governing document of Plymoth Colony. SIgned by most adult men.
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The traditional site for where the Plymouth Colony was founded by William Bradford and the Mayflower pilgrims.
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Also known as the Act Concerning Religion, it was a law mandating religious tolerance for trinitarian Christians.
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An armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against rule of Governor William Berkeley
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Also called the Revolution of !688, waas the overthrow of King James II by a union of Englsh Parliamentarians with William III of Orange Nassau.
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A restatemet of the Decleration of Rights inviting them to become joint sovereigns with England. It lays down the limits on the powers of the crown and sets out the rights of Parliaments and and rules for freedom of speech in Parliament.
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A series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in the colonial Massachusetts.
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A German American printer/publisher who worte in a newspaper in New York to voice his disagreements with the trivial policies of newly appointed colonial governor William Cosby.
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The American name for the the North American version of the Seven Years War. Fought by the American colonists against New France.
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Forbid the settlers from settling past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.
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A direct tax by the British Parliament specificaly for the American colonies and required many printed materials be produced on stamped paper produced in London carrying an embossed revenue stamp.
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Parliament enacted them to order local governments of the American Colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accomodations.
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An act of the Parliament, which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765.
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British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others. Incident on KIng Street.
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To reduce the massive surplus of tea held by the financially troubled Brititsh East India Company and to help the struggling company survive.
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A political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston. They boarded the ships and threw the chests of tea into the Boston Haror, ruining all of the tea.
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A convention of delegates from twelve colonies (no Georgia) called in response to the passage of the Coercive Acts.
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A convention of delegates from the 13 colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1975 soon after the American Revolution started.
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A statement adopted by the Continental Congress which announced that the thirteen colonies were regarding themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. They formed a union that would become a new nation - the United States of America.
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Ended the American Revolution between Great Britain on one side and the United States and its allies on the other side.
