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The Magna Carta was the first document to be forced on a king of england. Its purpose was to try to limit his power for the good of the people.
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The Petition of Right is a major constitutional document the stated the rights of the people that the king could not take away or infringe.
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The Albany Plan of Union was suggested by Benjamin Franklin and was thought to try and unify the government in order to have a defense.
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The british put a tax on the colonies and no one else. this tax was an unfair tax to try and stop the colonies from revolting
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The Boston Massacre was an incident that happened in Massachusetts Bay where a mob of angry civilians were crowded around eight British soldiers. the soldiers fired into the mob without being comanded to and killed 5 people.
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The Boston Tea Party was a ploitical protest by the sons of liberty that took place in boston harbor. The protest was against the East India Company and Great Britains tax on tea and everything.
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The First continental congress was was formed up of twelve delegates from the thirteen colonies at the beginning of the revolution to discuss economic boycott and rights and greviances.
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these are laws passed by Great Britain after the boston tea party that stripped Massachusetts of its governing right.
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this is when the american revolution began and we started to fight for our freedom from the british.
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the day the united states declared independence from great britain. This is one of the most important dates in US history.
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This was the agreement between the 13 founding states of America and served as the United States first constitution.
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the philadelphia convention was held to discuss the problems in our government at the time.
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this was the agreement after the constitional convention that basically brought forth our legislative branch.
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economic depression and a fiscally harsh government forced a group of rebels led by daniel shays to fight.
