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comprised of delegates from the colonies. series of measures imposed by the british government on the colonies in response to their resistance to new taxes
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plan to place the british north american colonies under a more centeralized government
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an act signed into law in 1689 by william iii and mary the ii. the bill outlined specific constitutional and civil rights and ultimately gave parliament power over the monarchy
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created laws for mayflower pilgrims and non-pilgrims alike for the good of their new colony. was a short document which established that the colonists would create and enact "laws, ordiances, acts, constitutions, and offices", for the good of the colony and abide by those laws
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in 1607, 104 english men and boys arrived in north america to start a settlement.on may 13th they picked jamestwon, virginia for their sttlement, which was named after their king, james i. the settlement became the first permenent english settlement in north america.
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"the great charter", one of the most important documents in history. established the principle that everyone is subject to the law, even the king, and guarantees the rights of individuals, the right of individuals, the right to justice and the right to a fair trial.
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statement of civil liberties sent by the english parliament to charles i. refused by parliament to finance the king's unpopular foreign policy had caused his government to exact forced loans and to quarter troops in subjects' houses as an economy measure
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instead of levying a duty on trade goods, the stamp act imposed a direct tax on the colonists. the act required that legal documents and printed materials must bear a tax stamp provided by commisioned distributors who would collect the tax in exchange for the stamp
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deadly riot. began as a street brawl between american colonists and a lone british soldier. quickly escalated to a chaotic bloody slaughter
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political protest at griffin's wharf in boston. american colonists angry at britain for imposing 'taxation without representation"dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor
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also known as the coercive acts; a series of british measures passed and designed to punish the massachusetts colonists for the boston tea party.
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convention of delegates of the 13 colonies. soon after the launch of the american revolutionary war. it succeeded the first continental congress.
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fought from 1775 to 1783. also known as the american war of independence. began with the confrontation between british troops and local military at lexington and concord
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adopted by the continental congress. the 13 american colonies severed their political connections to great britain. the declartaion summarized the colonists' motivations for seeking independnace
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an uprising led by a former military officer, daniel shays, which broke out in western massachusetts in 1786. shays followers protested the foreclosures of farms for debt and briefly succeeded in shutting down the court system
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also known of as the great compromise or sherman compromise. an agreement that large and small states reached during the constitutional convention of 1787that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the united states
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point of the event was deciding hoe america would be governed. the convention had been officially called to revise the existing articles of confederation, many delegates had other plans
