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Required King John of England to proclaim certain liberties and accept that his will was not arbitrary. Restricted power of King John.
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One of the first trips to the new world. Men went to settle and discover and use new recourses.
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Pilgrims fleeing persecution settled in America. The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony.
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English constitutional document that sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing.
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It was a restatement in statutory form of the Declaration of Right presented by the Convention Parliament to William and Mary.
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Suggested by Ben Franklin, it was an early attempt at forming a union of the colonies.
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Taxes on printed materials were legal documents, magazines, newspapers and many other types of paper used throughout the colonies.
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Mob around British sentry, used verbal abuse, soldiers got mad and fired. 5 people died.
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Colonists dumped tea into the harbor as a revolt against taxes. Britain got mad!
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Convention of delagates that met because of the Intolebral acts.
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A series of laws passed by the British Parliament.
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Was when America got fed up with Briatain and wanted to beat them down and get their independence!
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Managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence.
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Declared independence from Britain. Signed in the Second Continental congress.
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Loose confederation of sovereign states and a weak central government, leaving most of the power with the state governments.
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Armed uprising that happend because of finnancial difficulties of the depression, a creidit squeeze, and harsh government.
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An agreement that large and small states defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States Constitution.
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To address problems in governing the United States of America, which had been operating under the Articles of Confederation following independence from Great Britain.
