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The Navigation Acts were passed by the English Parliament. These acts were designed to regulate trade between England, the colonies, and the rest of the world.
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Issued by King George III the proclamation of 1763 forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains.
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The sons of liberty was a secret organization created in the colonies to protect the rights of the people and to fight against taxes by the British.
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The Stamp Act Congress was a meeting in which British Representatives devised a "Declaration of the Rights and Grievances of the Colonists".
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The Declaration of Rights and Grievances was written by the stamp act congress and stated that taxes that were put on British colonists without their consent was unjust.
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The Committees of Correspondence caused the thirteen colonies to come together against British policy.
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The 2nd Continental Congress managed the colonial war effort and moved gradually towards independence.
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The Olive Branch Petition was an attempt to maintain the colonists relationship with the British while asserting their rights.
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The Bill of Rights are the first ten amendments of the Constitution. It lists regulations on governments power.
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The Declaration of Independence severed the colonies ties from Great Britain and declared them independent.
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The Articles of Confederation were the first constitution of the United States.
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The Treaty of Paris ended the revolutionary war and recognized the independence of America.
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The 3/5ths Compromise stated that when voting, slaves would be counted as only 3/5ths of a person.
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Shay's Rebellion was a series of protests that were against tax collectors by American farmers.
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The Great Compromise was put into place when small states thought all states should get equal representation and large states felt they should get more representation than the smaller states.
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Federalism is a system of government. The relationship between the state government and the national government.
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Antifederalists were opposed to having a federal government and also did not like the constitution as opposed to federalists who did like these things.
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The Federalist Papers were a series of essays that urged the state of New York to ratify the constitution.
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Popular sovereignty is the principle that the government and the elected officials represent the people and must have their consent.
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To ratify something means to give consent to do something. The constitution was finally ratified in 1790.