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The first successful English settlement is founded. It is now the United States.
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The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. This is when the Pilgrims signed it.
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The Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, New Haven, and COnnecticut settlements formed the New England Confederation, a "league of friendship" for defense against Native American tribes.
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John Locke contributes to the constitution for the Carolina colony. He was known as Father of Liberalism and was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers
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The Albany Congress proposes that the colonies unite.
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The Stamp Act is passed. This required the use of tax stamps on legal documents, on certain business agreements, and on newspapers.
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Five colonists are killed by the British at the Boston Massacre.
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Colonist dressed as Mohawks dumped tea into the Boston Harbor to protest British tax on tea.
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The battles of Lexington and Concord spark the Revolution. This is when the "shot heard round the world" was fired.
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The Declaration of Independence is signed.
