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Magna Carta
Established the principal that the power of the monarchy was not absolute -
Mayflower Compact
Written frame work of government established in what is now the United States. -
Petition of Rights
The petition challenged the devine right of kings. -
Navigation act
Series of laws that restricted the use of ship for trade between Britain and its colonies -
English Bill of Rights
The right and liberty of the subjects and settling the succession. -
Proclamation of 1763
Forbidding all settlement along the appellation mountains. -
Sugar act
An act that raised sugar prices from great Britain. Each merchant was to pay tax of 6 pence per gallon on the importance of foreign molasses -
Stamp act
Payment of a tax to great Britain on a great verity of paper and documents. -
The Boston Tea Party
An act defined toward the British government. -
Coercive act
Ment to punish Massachusetts colonists for the Boston tea party. -
First colonist congress
12 Of the 13 colonies meet from September 5th to October 26th in Philadelphia. -
The first shots fired at Lexington
The first shot was fired by Great Britain to start the war -
Socond continental congress
The thirteen colonies that meet in the summer of 1775 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania soon after warfare and the revolutionary war had begun -
Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is defined by the formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the thirteen colonies freedom from great Britan.
