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King John was forced to sign this.
It listed the rights that not even the monarch could take away. -
A theory that the wealth of a nation depends on it's possession of precious metals.
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Was the first perminant English colony.
214 settlers arrived to establish this colony. -
This was the first representive government group in the American colonies.
The house met for the first time in Jamestown. -
This was a document signed by forty-one pilgrims.
They agreed to form a government and be bound by it's laws.
The document became the basis of government in the Plymouth colony. -
This was the second perminant English colony.
125 settlers were sent to establish this colony. -
Listed the basic laws of the Connecticut Colony.
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England put a new tax on tobacco.
Many North Carolinians, led by John Culpeper,forced the governer from office and established their own government. -
It was also called the Bloodless Revolution.
King James II was deposed by the Parliament.
He was replaced with William III and Mary II. -
This grew from the Glorious Revolution.
Parliament proposed a Declaration of Rights.
They then added several clauses to it and called the amended bill the English Bill of Rights. -
19 people were convicted of witchcraft and hung at Gallows Hill.
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A Christian revitalization movement that took place in the American colonies.
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This was a plan to place all of the British North American colonies under a centralized government.
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Was also called the seven years war.
This involved England, France, the colonies, and Indians.
The size of the colonies boubles because the British won. -
Numerous tribes formed an uprising to drive the British soldiers out of the region.
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This set a boundary line that the colonists were not allowed to cross.
It separated the colonists from the Indians and the French. -
This was the first tax imposed on the American colonists.
It granted certain duties to the British colonies and plantations. -
Were formed to protect any kind of taxation without representation.
They dumped the tea into Boston Harbor. -
This was imposed on all American colonists.
It was a tax on every piece of printed paper.
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This was a series of resolutions passed by the Virginia General Assembly in response to the Stamp Act.
They said the people couldn't be taxed by representatives they didn't elect themselves. -
This placed a tax on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea.
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This was a riot between citizens and soldiers.
The colonists threw rocks, sticks, and snowballs at the British soldiers.
The soldiers shot into the crowd and killed three and wounded eight more. -
The Gaspee was a British Royal Navy ship.
It was boarded by John Brown and a group of men.
They wounded the ship's lieutenant and set the ship on fire. -
Was organized to pass news from colony to colony about how England was violating colonists' rights.
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The British sent tea from the East Indian Company to the colonists.
The colonists refused to unload the tea and pay the higher price.
They saw it as "taxation without representation." -
A group of men called "The Sons of Liberty" dressed as Mohawk Indians and went to Boston Harbor.
They boarded three ships and dumped forty-five tons of tea into the harbor. -
They consisted of the Impartial Administration of Justice Act, the Massachusetts Bay Regulating Act, the Boston Port Act, the Quartering Act, and the Quebec Act.
These stirred up the revolution. -
The meeting place was Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia.
All colonies sent delegates except Georgia.
They decided to cut trade with England. -
North Carolina women met and promised to not drink English tea or wear English clothes.
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The delegates decided to creat a continental army.
They also authorized the printing of money. -
This declared royal authority invalid.
It also created provisions for managing county government and dealing with disputes. -
This recommended that all colonies declare themselves independent of Great Britain.
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This declared the colonist's freedom from Britain.
It was wrote and approved in the Pennsylvania State House. -
An agreement among the thirteen founding states that legally established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as it's first constitution.
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Britain recognized the independent nation of the United States of America.
Britain agreed to remove all troops from the new nation. -
This allowed sales of land and set up standards for land sell.
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This rebellion started over financial difficulties.
Over one thousand Shaysites were arrested and five were killed. -
Federalists wrote essays to Anti-Federalists that were Pro-Constitution.
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The meeting place was the State House in Philadelphia.
Fifty-five delegates from different states met to frame a Constitution. -
This created the Northwest Territory.
It was established so that America would expand westward. -
This was a rebellion on the tax of whiskey.
Farmers who sold their grain as whiskey strongly resented the tax.
The tax was soon repealed.
