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The Magna Carta was a document signed by King John to limit the power he held as king.
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The Mayflower Compact was a temporary form of a government for the pilgrims who settled in New England.
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This was the gathering that made the idea of New England (separate from Britain) official.
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The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government.
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This was the old government that was soon changed after established.
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The Northwest Ordinance, chartered a government for the Northwest Territory, provided a method for admitting new states to the Union from the territory, and listed a bill of rights guaranteed in the territory.
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This treaty between the American colonies and Great Britain, ended the American Revolution and formally named the United States as an independent nation.
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The boycott of President George Washington's commands because the army was growing restless.
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They closed the lower Mississippi River off to the Americans whose western farmers relied on it to ship their goods to market because it was easier and less expensive to transport it by sea than it was to transport it by land.
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Law passed by Congress that allowed for sales of land in the Northwest Territory and set up standards for land sale that became precedents. Among them was the idea of selling mile-square sections of land.
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The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom is a statement about both freedom of conscience and the principle of separation of church and state.
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Shays' Rebellion was an armed uprising and was named after Daniel Shays, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War and one of the rebel leaders.
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The Annapolis Convention was a meeting at Annapolis, Maryland of 12 delegates that called for a constitutional convention.
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This is basically the framing of our Federal Constitution
