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Jun 15, 1215
magna carta
a charter agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215. -
jamestown
in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas -
virginia house of burgesses
first legislative assembly of elected representatives in North America. The House was established by the Virginia Company -
mayflower compact
first written framework of government established in what is now the United States. -
stamp act
The Stamp Act of 1765 was the first internal tax levied directly on American colonists by the British government -
boston massacre
The Boston Massacre, known as the Incident on King Street by the British, was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers shot and killed people while under intense attack by a mob -
tea act
Tea Act of 1773 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The principal objective was to reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive. -
boston tea party
Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. -
Intolerable Acts
series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance of throwing a large tea shipment into Boston Harbor in reaction to being taxed by the British.