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First permanent British settlement in North America -
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the first democratically-elected legislative body in the British American colonies. -
the first framework of government written and enacted in the territory that is now the United States of America. -
granite slab upon which, according to tradition, the Pilgrim Fathers stepped first after disembarking from the Mayflower on December 26, 1620 -
Christopher Colombus discovered but thought he was originally in India -
to the decline of indentured servitude and the corresponding rise of slavery within the British American colonies. -
The Bill firmly established the principles of frequent parliaments, free elections and freedom of speech within Parliament -
a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft -
a series of religious revivals in American Christian history. -
the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years' War. -
prohibited Anglo-American colonists from settling on lands acquired from the French following the French and Indian War. -
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t cut the duty on foreign molasses from 6 to 3 pence per gallon, retained a high duty on foreign refined sugar, and prohibited the importation of all foreign rum. -
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