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First permanent English Colony in what is now the United States
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First legislative assembly of elected representatives in North America.
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First governing document of Plymouth Colony.
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First written Constitution in the Western tradition
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The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America
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Stating that the indians owned the land
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Ended French and Indian war.
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Currency could only be obtained through trade as regulated by Great Britain.
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Soldier had to live with you and yiou would have to provide the basic needs for him.
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Every paper that was printed must have a special stamp for it to be important.
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Taxes on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper, and tea were applied.
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Five people were killed and to make it sound better.
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Tax on tea.
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Americans dumped a million gallons of tea in the water.
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Patriot name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament.
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Convention of delegates from twelve colonies .
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The first battle of the Revolutionary War.
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Convention of delegates from the 13 colonies that started meeting in the summer.
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statement adopted by the Continental Congress which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire.
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Major battle of the Revolutionary War.
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Agreement made by the original 13 states establishing a confederacy to be known as the United States.
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Valley in eastern Pennsylvania that served as quarters for the American army in one winter of the Revolutionary War.
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Last battle of the Revolutionary War.
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Articles of confederation were in use.
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Ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain on one side and the United States of America
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Assembly that drafted the Constitution of the United States.
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A compromise between Southern and Northern states reached during the Philadelphia Convention.
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Was struck in the creation of legislative bodies.
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The Constitution originally consisted of seven Articles.
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he said "so help me god" after his anogeration.
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Formal summary of those rights and liberties considered essential to a people.
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Incident precipitated by the military adventurism
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angry farmers in western Pennsylvinia launched a series of attacks on federal excise agents in response to tax on whiskey
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agreement between Spain and the United States, fixing the southern boundary of the United States
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representatives of the United States and Great Britain signed Jay’s Treaty, which sought to settle outstanding issues between the two countries
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the second President of the United States
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diplomatic incident that almost led to war between the United States and France
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four bills that were passed by the Federalists in the 5th United States Congress and signed into law by President John Adams
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Shortly after the Jay Treaty took effect, the French began seizing American ships.
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President Jefferson hoped to make far-reaching changes
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began when an obscure Federalist, William Marbury, was designated as a justice of the peace in the District of Columbia.
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The territory acquired from France the Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of the United States.
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first American expedition to cross what is now the western portion of the United States.
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by the U.S. Congress in answer to the British orders in council restricting neutral shipping and to Napoleon's restrictive Continental System
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the Supreme Court ruled that Congress had implied powers under the Necessary and Proper Clause of Article I, Section 8 of the constitution.
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The McCulloch v. Maryland decision in 1819 fanned the flames of controversy over States' rights and national supremacy.
