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the first permanent colony / english serttlement
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the first legislature anywhere in the English colonies in America was in Virginia
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the first governing document of Plymouth Colony
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basic law of the Connecticut colony from 1639 to 1662
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war against indian and the french and was the final colonial war
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was signed by Great Britain, France, and Spain
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The end of the French and Indian War
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one of the causes of the American Revolution
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The tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used
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brithish army came into pepoles houses and satyed there
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Taxes on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper, and tea
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five people died
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tax put on tea
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a group of Massachusetts Patriots seized 342 chests of tea in a midnight raid on three tea ships and threw them into the harbor.
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The First Continental Congress was a group of 56 delegates from 12 colonies
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the laws that the British Parliament passed in 1774. These laws had something to do with the British colonies in North America.
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the Battles of Lexington and Concord were the opening actions of the American Revolution. The first shots were fired at Lexington
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the members of the Second Continental Congress met at the State House in Philadelphia.
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a document that explains the reasons of self-government against British rules
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The Battle of Saratoga was the turning point of the Revolutionary War.
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The Articles of Confederation were the first constitution of the United States
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George Washington’s forces became an army. No battle was fought at Valley Forge
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The first constitution in our nation's history was the U.S. Articles of Confederation
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The Americans and French were in that battle against the brithish and the brithish surrendered once the americans and french surrounded them
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established peace between Great Britain and the allied nations of France, Spain, and the Netherlands.
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an agreement between the Southern and Northern states that slaves were considered three-fifths
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The Constitutional Convention took place at the State House in , Pennsylvania
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The objective of the Great Compromise was to balance the influence of large states and small states (measured by population) in the federal government. The main idea was to create a bicameral.
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The Constitution was written to create a government that was ruled by and for the people
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The US Bill of Rights exists due to the decision of the framers of the constitution in 1783
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Citizen Genet was sent by France to be its new ambassador to the United States
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the main idea of the whiskey rebellion from the framers point of view was not to pay the tax on whiskey
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One of the most important diplomatic aims of the Washington administration was to secure recognition of American borders from the great powers.
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signed between the United States and Great Britain. Tensions between the two countries had increased since the end of the Revolutionary War.
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President Adams sent three envoys to France to negotiate a new agreement
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The French Navy began seizing American trading ships
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a series of 4 acts passed by the Federalist controlled Congress. immigration
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was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court formed the basis for the exercise of judicial review
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U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land
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4,000-mile long journey through unknown territory
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halted trade with both nations until the impressments ended.
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Chief Justice John Marshall wrote the opinion for this landmark case defining the powers of a state over the federal government.
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One of the most important decision of the early Supreme Court. Led by Chief Justice John Marshall, the Court said that the federal commerce clause, in effect, outranked a state law that had granted a monopoly to one group of people.
