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About 104 English men and boys move to North America to start a new life. They pick Jamestown in Virginia. The town is named after the King James. -
King Charles 1 of England granted the Massachusetts Bay Company a trade. They colonize approximately between the Charles and Merrimack Rivers. The settlement began in 1630 -
This act means prohibited the importation of all foreign rum. A retained a high duty on foreign refined sugar. Also cut the duty on foreign molasses from 6 to 3% per gallon. -
Had to pay British troops during the long war. This act mean the colonists had to pay taxes. But only on things with a stamp like playing cards, documents, and papers. -
Seven British soldiers fired into a crowd of volatile Bostonians. This killed five people and wounded six more. This was angering an entire colony. -
This was an act of protest which a group of 60 people jumped on the boats and threw 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. This was for the taxation without representation. A political protest. -
They used this act to get back them for the Boston Tea Party. This was one of the four laws they passed. It limited colonial power and reinstated royal governance. -
It not an legally binding, but its it powerful. This mean the states principles on which our government and more. This day we becamed free and independent. -
This settled the method of representation. It have to be an equal on the vote. This shows that large states is not better the small ones. -
It was 55 delegates signed the new document. George Washington was the first one to signed. This was to give the power in the people who in it