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1215
Magna Carta
also called the great charter it acknowledged certain specific rights against the king -
sugar act
This act taxed molasses and had more enforcement -
stamp act/ Samuel Adams
this act taxed printed and paper items it was the fist act that effected the colonists directly because it levied on goods and services.// Samuel Adams was one of the founders of the sons of liberty he had protest astringent British goods. -
Boston massacre
An angry mob stood outside the Boston customs house and British troops fired into the crowd killing 5 people and non of the colonists had any weapons -
Boston Tea party
A group of colonists dressed up like Indians and pored crates of British tea into the Boston harbor. -
Intolerable acts
One law closed the Boston Harbor another was that British soldiers were to be housed in vacant houses and other buildings and also the King made General Thomas Gage the commander of the British troops the new governor of Massachusetts -
second continental congress
Colonial leaders came together to figure out their next move and they decided to call the colonial militia the Continental Army and to appointed George Washington as the commander -
Battle of Bunker hill
The British soldiers of 2400 were on a hill the colonist held up till the last minute and then they began to mow down the redcoats and they retreated the redcoats lost 1000 and the colonists lost 450 -
Common Sense
A 50 page pan flit written by Thomas Paine saying how the king is wrong and how his dispute with the king started with Lexington and Concord -
Deceleration of independence
The rights that us Americans have written by Thomas Jefferson with his ideas and John Lock people have rights to life liberality and the Proust of happiness -
English Bill of Rights
A bill that replaced the magna carta that gave people their rights as Englishmen
