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Feb 6, 1215
Magna Charter
a document that King John of England was forced into signing. It greatly reduced the power he held as the King of England and allowed for the formation of a powerful parliament. -
The English Bill of Rights
incorporated in the constitution as Amendments 1–10, and in all state constitutions -
French and Indian War
Seven Year War between -
Sugar Act
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Quartering Act
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Colonists Form a Society Called The Sons of Liberty
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Stamp Act of 1765
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Parliament Repealed the Stamp Act
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Parliament Passes the Townshend Acts
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The Tension Explodes (Boston Massacre)
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Committees of Correspondence
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Tea Act
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Boston Tea Party
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Intolerable Acts
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Coercive Acts
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Closing of Boston Harbor
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Massachusetts Charter Cancelled
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First Continental Congress
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Patrick Henry’s Speech
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Paul Revere’s Ride
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Governor Gage’s Seizing of Colonist’s Stockpile of Weapons
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1st Battle at Lexington and Concord
-Captain John Parker, Paul Revere, Samuel Prescott and Thomas Gage.
-British heard many weapons were stocked in Concord.
-Patriots hid weapons.
-British were mad and it forced them back to Boston. -
Bunker Hill
-Launched in Breed's Hill.
-General Washington.
-Proved to British that the colonists were just as powerful.
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Second Continental Congress
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Forming the Continental Army
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Named George Washington Commander of Continental Army
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Battle of Bunker Hill
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Olive Branch Petition
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Thomas Paine's Common Sense
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Dorchester Heights
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Dorchester Heights
-Nook's Hill.
-Washington, General Howe.
-Cannons where troops were.
-Howe retreated from Boston to Canada. -
E Pluribus Unum
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Declaration of Rights Draft
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Signing of the Declaration of Independence
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Benedict Arnold's Ticonderoga Fort Seizure
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Articles of Confederation
The original constitution of the United States, which was replaced by the US Constitution in 1789. -
Land Ordinance of 1785
adopted by the United States Congress on May 20, 1785. -
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
the act of Congress in 1787 providing for the government of the Northwest Territory and setting forth the steps by which its subdivisions might become states. -
Shay’s Rebellion
was an armed uprising in central and western Massachusetts -
Constitution Ratification
9 of 13 states needed to ratify the constitution
