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Establishment of Jamestown as a colony
104 English men and boys arrived in North America to start a settlement -
Sugar Act
Cut the duty of foren molasses from 6 to 3% per gallon and prohibited the importation of foreign rum. -
Boston Massacre
British soldier fired into a crowd of colonist who were mad about being taxed unfairly -
Boston Tea party
A political protest American colonist threw a ship's worth of tea into the boston harbor to upssent the tax on tea and -
Intolerable Act
A series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party -
Declaration of Independence
The separation of 13 British colonies from Great Britain. Made them all equal and gave them the rights of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. -
New Jersey Plan
Designed to protect the security and power of small states by limiting the states to one vote -
Shay's Rebellion
A violent revolt in the Massachusetts countryside -
3/5 compromise
3 out of 5 slaves would be counted when determining the states population -
Virginia plan
A strong national government with three branches legislative, executive, and judicial