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http://www.middle-ages.org.uk/magna-carta.htm
King John was forced into signing the charter because it greatly reduced the power he held as the King of England and allowed for the formation of a powerful parliament. -
http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/mercantilism.html
The theory of trade which stated that a nation should export more than it imported to accumulate more gold. -
http://www.preservationvirginia.org/rediscovery/page.php?page_id=6
First successfull English colony in the New World. -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Burgesses
The first assembly of elected repsresentatives of English colonists in North America. -
http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/PrimarySources/MayflowerCompact.php
A written agreement composed by a concensus of the New Settlers arriving at New Plymouth. -
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_the_fundamental_orders_of_Connecticut
This document called for an assembly of elected representatives from each town to make laws. It also called for the popular election of a governor and judges. -
http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Culpeper's+Rebellion
Popular uprising in the Albemarle section of Carolina to protest the British Navigation Acts, which denied the colonists free markets -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorious_Revolution
The overthrow of King James II of England. -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_Rights_1689
Set out strict limits on the Royal Family's legal prerogatives such as prohibition against arbitrary suspension of Parliament's laws. -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Colony
Enlgish venture from 1620-1692 in Massachusetts. Named by pilgrims who arrived by Mayflower. -
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/salem.htm
A series of hearings before court trials to prosecute people acussed of witchcraft. 19 men and women executed. -
http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/first-great-awakening
A series of evangelical religious revival movements. The movements were characterized by emotional religious conversions from a state of sin by preachings by itinerant preachers in front of crowds of thousands. -
http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/battleswars16011800/p/fortnecessity.htm
War between Great Britian and France. -
http://history.state.gov/milestones/1750-1775/AlbanyPlan
A plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government. -
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h598.html
A war that was a reaction to British control in North America. -
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/proc63.htm
A royal decree that prohibited the North American colonists from establishing settlements west of the imaginary line running down the crest of the Appalachian Mountains. -
http://library.thinkquest.org/TQ0312848/suact.htm
Placed a tax on sugar, wine, and other important stuff, because British wanted more money. -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamp_Act_1765
Required all legal documents, licenses, commercial contracts, newspapers, pamphlets and playing cards to carry a tax stamp. -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sons_of_Liberty
Formed to protect the rights of colonists.
Established and took part in Boston Tea Party. -
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/british-repeal-hated-townshend-act
Placed new taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea. -
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/massacre.htm
a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign.The riot began when about 50 citizens attacked a British sentinel. -
http://www.gaspee.org/Revolut2.htm
The burning of the British naval cutter by Rhode island. It led up to the American War. -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_of_correspondence
They were shadow governments organized by the Patriot leaders of the Thirteen Colonies on the eve of the American Revolution -
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/teaact.htm
It gace a tax break tot he East India Tea company to save them from bankruptcy. -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party
direct action against the British government that controlled all the tea imported. After officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor. -
http://ourgeorgiahistory.com/ogh/Intolerable_Acts
I was made to punisyh Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party. -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Continental_Congress
A convention of delegates from twelve British North American colonies. -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edenton_Tea_Party
A political protest in Edenton, North Carolina, in response to the Tea Act, which was passed by the British Parliament in 1773 -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Continental_Congress
Group of people from over 13 colonies who came together to discuss liberty. -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecklenburg_Resolves
A list of statements reputed to have been introduced in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina to the Mecklenburg Committee of Safety on or after March 20, 1775 and adopted by the committee on May 31, 1775. The document may have proclaimed that all laws originating from the British King or Parliament are null and void, and that the only legitimate government over the American colonies was the Continental Congress, then meeting in Philadelphia. -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Resolves
The name later given to a resolution adopted by the Fourth Provincial Congress of the Province of North Carolina on April 12, 1776, during the American Revolution. The resolution helped pave the way for the United States Declaration of Independence -
http://virtualology.com/hallofthehistoricarchives/THEDECLARATIONOFINDEPENDENCE.ORG/leeresolution/
A series of resolutions passed by the VGA in response to the Stamp Act. -
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html
Written by Thomas Jefferson. It is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress which announced the 13 colonies regarded themselves as independent states. -
http://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/document.html?doc=2&title.raw=Articles of Confederation
An agreement among the 13 founding states that legally established the USA as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution. -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Paris_(1783)
Ended the American Revolution between Great Britian and America. -
http://www.bchistory.org/beavercounty/BeaverCountyTopical/GeneralHistoriesofBC/LandOrd1785MW98.html
An attempt to alliviate the finicial crisis the Revolutionary War left. -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shays'_Rebellion
An armed uprising the took place in central and western Massachusetts. -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_Convention_(United_States)
Adressed problems in governing the USA. The delegates elected George Washington to preside over the convention. -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Ordinance
The primary effect of the ordinance was the creation of the Northwest Territory as the first organized territory of the United States. -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Federalist_Papers
A series of 85 articles or essays promoting the ratification of the Constitution and a collection of articles written in opposition to ratifaication of the Constitution. -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey_Rebellion
A tax protest in the US. Farmers who sold their grain in the form of whiskey had to pay a new tax that they strongly resented.
