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When the English nobility had forced King John the sign Magna Carta.
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Accepted by King William and Queen Mary.
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He succeeded his grandfather in 1760, hoped to lower the debt
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Locke maintained that people have natural rights to life, liberty, and property.
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Did three things it halved the duty on foreign-made molasses. It placed duties on certain imports. It provided that colonist accused of violating the act would be tried in a vice-admiralty
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This act imposed a tax on documents and printed items such as wills, newspapers, and playing cards.
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One of the founders of the Sons of Liberty.
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Shots were fired and five colonist, including Crispus Attucks, were were killed or mortally wounded.
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The “Indians” dumped 18,000 pounds of the East India Company’s tea into the waters of Boston harbor.
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only one law shut down the Boston harbor.
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Paul Revere, William Davis, and Samuel Prescott rode out to spread the word that 700 British troops were heading for Concord.
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Colonial leaders called the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia to debate their next move.
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Cooped up in Boston, British general Thomas Gage to strike at militiamen on Breed’s Hill.
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Important ideas Thomas Paine in a widely read 50-page pamphlet titled Common Sense
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Was chosen to prepare the final draft of the Declaration of Independence.
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While talks on this fateful were under way, the Congress appointed a committee to prepare a formal.
