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A document that gave certain rights to English people. -
Gave England its first foothold in the European Competition for the New World. -
Bill outline specific constitutional and civil rights and gave Parliment power over the monarchy. -
Was a great expansion of British territorial claims in the New World. -
Helped replenish their finances after the costly Seven Years War with France, -
Was important because they discussed their grievences and protested against the proposals in the act. -
American Colonists dumped shiploads of tea into the water to protest a British tax on tea. -
The laws were there to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British Government. -
It considered the the reaction to the British government's restraints on trade and representative government after the Boston Tea Party. -
The "shot heard round the world" was the initial shots of Lexington and Concord which began the Revolutionary War. This led to the creation of the US. -
The Second Continental Congress meeting raised armies, directed strategy, appointed diplomats, and wrote petitions. Even the Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms and the Olive Branch Petition. -
The Declaration of Independence being signed is an important part of America because it has the goals and desires of our nation. -
This is a special moment in history because they went through 16 months of debate before the Articles of Confederation was finally ratified. It was important alone because they were created with a a weak central government which led them to the Constitution Convention. -
The significance of the Constitutional Convention was to decide how America was going to be governed. -
The final Constitution was signed and the Constitution replaced the weak Articles of Confederation.