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Granted rights to both Nobles and Feemen.
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Roanoke was the first attempted colony in America. It is known as the "Lost Colony".
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Jamestown was the first permanent settlement in the "New World".
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First representative assembly in the New World
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Was an agreement to form a self-government.
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Rhode Island was founded by Roger Williams for religious freedom.
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Regulating colonial commerse to suit English needs.
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Bacon and his followers rebelled against the Massachusetts government when a war against the Native Americans was declined.
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William Penn founded Pennsylvania for religious tolerance.
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People were accused of being witches and put on trial them ultimately to their death.
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The Great Awakening was a religious renewal movement through the colonies. People wanted Americans to go back to the religious roots that brought them to America.
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Benjamin Franklin published the first Poor Richard's Almanac.
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The Zenger trial is the reason that we now have the 1st amendment to our Constitution. He was aquitted from charges that he spoke negatively about the government.
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Benjamin Franklin wrote the Albany Plan of Union in 1754 in order to organize the colonies.
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The French and Indian War began.
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Forbade colonists to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains.
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Britain passed the Sugar Act on the colonies in order to pay debts from the French and Indian War.
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The Stamp and Quartering Act was passed by Britain in the colonies that taxed certain goods and required colonists to house British soldiers.
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These Acts were passes in the colonies in order to raise revenues for England. These were basically the other repelled acts combined.
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British soldiers fired into a group of colonists, killing four and Crispus Attucks. This was used as Anti-British propaganda,
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Colonists dressed as Native Americans, and threw 342 chests of tea in the Boston Harbor in protest of the Tea Act.
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Britain passed the Intolerable Acts to punish the colonies for the Boston Tea Party.
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12 of the 13 colonies met to discuss civil disobediance against Britain in response to the Intolerable Acts.
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This was said by Patrick Henry at the Virginia convention.
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Paul Revere, William Dawes, and William Prescott ride to warn the colonists that the British are coming.
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Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense to promote independence as the right path to take.
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This document, written by Thomas Jefferson, was approved on July 4, 1776.
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Was the turning point of the Revolution. This battle, along with Benjamin Franklin, helped convince the French to help us in the Revolution.
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The Articles of Confederation were adopted by the Continental Congress as the first government.
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"I have not yet begun to fight!"
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Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown. Making it the last major battle of the Revolution.
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This treaty ended the Revolution.
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This Ordinance set the orderly pattern of growth for the United States and accelerated westward expansion.