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The Magna Carta was a document written to limit the power of the king of England. It was signed King John and barons who had threatened revolt.
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Jamestown was the first successful English colony. It was founded in Virginia by the Virginia Company.
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First governing document of the Plymouth colony. Was a social contract that helped to establish a government. Was signed by 41 of the 101 passengers on the Mayflower.
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Major consituitional document that limits the power of the king. It also prohibits non-parliamental taxation, forced billeting of soldiers, imprisonment without cause, and the use of martial law during peacetime.
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An act of Parliament that enforced many rights. It also established separation of power, limiting the power of the king and queen, enhance democratic election, and bolsters freedom of speech.
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First attempt to have all of the Thriteen colonies be under one government. Was proposed by Benjamin Franklin and other representatives from seven colonies.
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Act that imposed a tax upon printed papers. Caused emnity between colonists and the English.
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A crowd of angy colonists surrounded surrouned British soldiers causing them to panic. This caused them to fire into the crowd causing several deaths.
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Protest by the colonists over the tea act. They dumped tea into boston Harbor disguised as natives.
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A meeting of delegates from tweleve of the thriteen colonies. In response to the coercive acts.
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Puniative acts after the Boston Tea Party. It was a major cause for the American Revolution.
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Reconvening of the many of the delegates from the first Continental Congress. Acted as the national government throughout the revolution.
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America becomes fed up with England's treatment of them and revolts. Leads to the Revolutionary War.
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Declared that the United States was a free and Independent counry. Seen as the birth of the United States. Signed by representatives from the thirteen colonies.
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It was the first attempt by the United States to have a consitution. Put most of the power in the hands of the individual states rather than the federal government.
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An armed uprising in Massachusetts upset over economic greivances. Was led by Revolutuionary war veteran Daniel Shay.
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Convention in order to make a new consitution for the United States. Ended with the Consitution being adopted.
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Convention to adopt a new consituition to replace the Articles of Confederation. Was held in Philidelphia.
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Compromise between small and large states. Set up having representatives based on population in the House of Representatives and equal representation in the Senate.
