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Sep 30, 1215
King John was focred to sign the Magna Carta
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Jamestown was founded
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English founded 13 colonies along the Eastern coast of North America
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The Virginia House of Burgesses was established
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Pilgrims signed the Mayflower Compact
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Charles I took the throne
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Petition of Rights- limits King's power sometimes called Maga Carta II
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New Puritan immigrants settled near the Pilgrims
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Colony adopted the Great Fundamentals
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Puritans who left Massachusetts Bay Colony to colonize Connecticut made America's first formal constitution: Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
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Parliament removed James II from the throne and crowned William III and Mary II
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English Bill of Rights
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John Locke published Two Treatises on Government
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Benjamin Franklin proposed the Albany Plan of Union
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French and Indian War
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Several European countries became involved in the French and Indian War
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George III became king
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Great Britian won the French and Indian War and gained control of teh eastern United States
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The Stamp Act of 1765 imposed the first direct taxes on the colonists
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9 colonists sent delegates to a meeting in New York called the Stamp Act Congress
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A group of colonists, dressed as Mohawk, dumped tea into the Boston Harbor
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The committees of correspondence urged resistance to the British
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Delegates from all the colonies except Georgia met in Philadelphia for the First Continental Congress
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The first battle of the Revolutionary War
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Jefferson asked John Adams and Benjamin Franklin to look over his draft of the Declaration of Independence
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Richard Henry Lee introduced a resolution in the Continential Congress
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America declared their independence from Great Britian
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Congress approved Lee's resolution
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Congress approved teh final draft of the Declaration of Independence
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8 states had adopted written constitutions
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French Revolution