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Nobles rebelled against King John and made him sign the "Great Charter". The charter protected their rights and control.
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Kings (including King john) met with nobles, common people, church officials, and representitives to get adivce. The group then grew into a legislature
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Colonists formed their first legislature for the English colonies.
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A group of Pilgrims came to America from England and made a settlement known as Plymouth.
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The Parliament overthrows the monarch's power and wrote the English Bill Of Rights to make themselves clear.
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Parliament signed the Enlgish Bill of Rights to further restrict monarch's power.
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Parliament reacted to the "Boston Tea Party" with the five Coercive Acts of 1774. The colonists called them the "Intolerable Acts."
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All of the colonies except Georgia sent delegates. These were elected by the people, by the colonial legislatures, or by the committees of correspondence of the respective colonies.
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In May 1775, with Redcoats raided Boston again, the Second Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia.
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Before the Constsituion they had the Articles of Confederation which were a league of friendship between the 13 colonies.
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After the American Revolution ended, thousands of Massachusetts citizens took up arms against their new government.
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delegates from 12 of the 13 states were present. The state of Rhode Island wouldn't send a delegate because they were scared of losing its states' rights. The delegates worked for 4 months to draft a new document known later as the "Constitution."
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The Great Compromise was an agreement made among the delegates to the Constitutional Convention that the American government would have two houses in Congress: the Senate where each state has two Senators, and the House of Representatives where each state has a number of Representatives based on population.