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Feudal barons forced King John to sign Great Charter limiting monarchial powers
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First permanent English settlement in America established, indirect democracy
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First representative assembly in America, located in Virginia (indirect democracy)
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First governing document of Plymouth Colony written by separatists fleeing religious prosecution
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First direct democracy established in America
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Laws of Connecticut preceding Constitution, heavily influencing Constitution as well
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Series of laws passed by Great Britain putting theory of mercantilism into practice
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Nathaniel Bacon led an attack on the Virginia Government because they had agreed to keep settlers from taking land from Native Americans
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King of England signs land over to William Penn and Quakers; very democratic society, open to other religions
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Hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts
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spiritual growth movement rooted in colonial America
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In Albany, NY, colonies debated a plan for a federal union
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British government prohibited colonial settlers from moving past Appalachian Mountains without special permissions
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Stated Parliament had authority to pass binding laws on American colonies
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A series of acts, starting in 1767, passed on the British Colonies in order to pay for war and empire, which further angered the colonists after the Quartering Act
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British troops fire into mob in Boston, killing five men
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British Parliament increased tax on tea, angering colonists
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Group of colonial patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians board three ships in Boston Harbor, dumped more than 300 crates overboard to protest British tea tax
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Five laws limiting the political and geographical freedom of colonists, to punish people of Mass. for Boston Tea Party
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meeting in Philadelphia with 56 delegates representing each colony (except Georgia)
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opening battles of American Revolution following Intolerable Acts
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convention of delegates from 12 of 13 colonies succeeding First Continental Congress, approved Declaration of Independence, commissioned creation of continental army under Gen. Washington
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Thomas Paine’s pamphlet calling for total independence published, referring to England as ‘royal brute’
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Declaration adopted by Continental Congress
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Adopted by Continental Congress, first US Constitution
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NH farmers take up arms to protest high state tax and stiff penalties for failure to pay
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A series of 85 articles published, written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, promoting the ratification of the US Constitution.
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Delegates from 12 out of 13 colonies meet in Philadelphia to draft US Constitution
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Delegates of the Constitutional Convention decided that in determining representation in Congress, five slaves would count as three free men
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New Hampshire became the 9th state to ratify the US Constitution, thus putting it into effect.