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Magna Carta
A charter of liberties to which the English barons forced King John to give his assent in June 1215 at Runnymede. -
Jamestown
The first permanent English settlement in North America, founded in 1607 in Virginia. Jamestown was named for King James I of England. -
Virginia House of Burgesses
was the first legislative assembly of elected representatives in North America. -
Mayflower Compact
was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by the male passengers of the Mayflower, consisting of separatist Congregationalists who called themselves "Saints", -
Stamp Act
was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain that imposed a direct tax on the colonies of British America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp -
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
was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. -
Boston Tea Party
was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston -
Intolerable Acts
were the American Patriots' term for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. -
Declaration of Independence
as the formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain. -
1st Continental Congress
was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies that met on September 5 to October 26, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. -
2nd Continental Congress
was a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that started meeting in the spring of 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. -
Lexington and Concord
were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
Olive Branch Petition
was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 5, 1775 in a final attempt to avoid a full-on war between Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies, which the Congress represented. -
Common Sense
is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies.
