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The Magna Carta is a seris of written promises between the king and his subjects. It states that the king would govern England and deal with its people according to feudal law. The Magna Carta was an attempt to stop Kings from abusing power.
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/magna_carta.htm
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The house of Burgess was made so that they could have a legislature for the colony. They held their first meeting in July. http://www.ushistory.org/us/2f.asp , http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1151.html , Photo - http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1151.html
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The Mayflower Compact is a document. The Mayflower Compact was made because "mutinous speeches".
The Mayflower Compact attempted to establish a government until an official one could be established.
http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/PrimarySources/MayflowerCompact.php
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Plymouth colony was a group of English merchents, they had intended to settle on the Hudson River but were blown off course. The plymouth colony develpoed around trade in fish and furs. They were not prosperous.
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h522.html
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The Fudamental order of Conneticut are a sort of constitution that was adopted by the freemen of windsor, Hartford and Wethersfield. The Fundamental order of Conneticut did not limit voting just to the puritans.
http://www.constitution.org/bcp/fo_1639.htm
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The Glorious Revolution are the events that resulted in overthrow of James II and his daughter Mary II and her husband William III.
The battle of the Glorious Revolution was fought in Ireland.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/547105/Glorious-Revolution
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The french and indian war was the final conolonial war. The French and the English battled over land. It resulted in remarkable growth in the population. The population went from 250,000 to 1.25 million. Photo-http://www.hpssims.com/pages/products/rifmusk/fiw/fiw1.jpg Info-http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/frin.htm
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The Sugar act of 1764 was made because the Sugar and Molasses Act was about to expire. The Sugar and Molasses act required merchants to pay 6 pence per gallon on Molasses. The Sugar revenue act helped to reduce rate of tax on molasses from 6 pence to 3 pence.
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/sugaract.htm
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The stamp act required all american colonists to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper that they used.
The money collected from the stamp act was used for defending and protecting the American frontier
http://www.history.org/history/teaching/tchcrsta.cfm
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The townsend act was made because the stamp act had failed. The townsend acts put a tax on the importation of Tea, Glass, Paint, Oil, Lead, and Paper. http://www.patriotresource.com/amerrev/events/townshend.html Photo-http://www.mrnussbaum.com/history/images/townshend2.jpg
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The Boston Massacre was a sort of "street fight" between a British soldier and a "mob of patriots". It left 3 people dead and 8 people wounded. Two of the wounded ended up dying later on. Photo and info -http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/massacre.htm
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The committees of Correspondence were formed throughoutt the colonies. The group was appointed by legislature in the 13th British American Colonies to provide Colonial Leadership. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/138668/Committees-of-Correspondence
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The tea act was designed to prop up East india company.
The act allowed a drawback on exportation of tea
The act also lauched the final spark to revolutionary movement.
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/teaact.htm
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The Boston Tea Party was the result of the tax that was imposed on tea. The people did not like that they had a higher tax on tea so they decided to dress up as mohawk indians and push tea into the ocean. -From Class notes and http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h646.html Photo - http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h646.html
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The intolerable acts are a series of 5 laws:
The Boston Port Act, The Massachusetts Government Act, The Administration of Justice Act, The Quartering Act and The Quebec Act, these laws were retribution for the Boston tea party. Very Important.
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The Virginia house of Burgess proposed the first continental congress. The first continental congress was made so that the colonist could protect their rights. Twelve of the 13 colonies sent delegates to attend the meeting of the first continental congress. http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution/revgfx/may-compact.jpg
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The continental congress met because the red coasts had stormed into Boston again. They had a meeting and they all agreed to make a continental army.
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The Halifax resolves are the very virst istructions by any colony that let its delegates of the continental congress vote for independence from Great Britian. http://www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com/halifax-resolves-april-12-1776.html
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The treaty of Paris was signed between Britian and America. It provided for recogniton of American independence, establishment of american boundaries, American fishing rights and pledge of continental congress. http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h685.html Photo-http://www.allamericanpatriots.com/files/treaty-of-paris.jpg
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The land ordinance of 1785 was a system that showed township. They made the land ordinance because townspeople were fighting over the land. The ordinance is a landmark legislation. http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1150.html
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The goal of the constitutional convention was to revise the Articles of Confederation. The discussion instead turned into two competing concepts of how a New government should be formed.http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h368.html
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The land ordinance of 1787 showed the western lands that were North of the Ohio river, West of the Alleghenies and East of the Mississippi. The Land Ordinance prohibited Slavery immediately. http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h365.html
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The Anti-Federalist papers are a series of arguments in favor of ratifacation. They contain warnings of dangers from tyranny of the constitution. http://www.barefootsworld.net/antifederalist.html
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The congress realized that they needed some rules. The Articles of Confederation established a confederation of sovereign states.
It specified limited functions of federal government.
http://www.ushistory.org/us/14b.asp
http://www.barefootsworld.net/aoc1777.html
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