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The Magna Carta was a paperseeking protection against heavy-handed and arbitary acts by the king.
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If you wanted more money and parliament refused you had to sign the Petition of Right.
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The Bill of Rights is an Act of the Parliament of England passed It on December 16,1689 was a restatement in statutory form of the Declaration of Right presented by the Convention Parliament to William and Mary
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was an incedent in which British Army soldiers killed five civilian men and injured six others. British troops had been stationed in Boston, capital of the Province of Massachusetts Bay,
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after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor.
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The Articles of Confederation, formally the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, was an agreement among the 13 founding states that established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution.
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Shays' Rebellion was an armed uprising that took place in central and western Massachusetts
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was a proposal for the structure of the United States Government presented by William Paterson at the Constitutional Convention
