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Gave King John 1 less power
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The first governing document of Plymouth Colony
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Document defining the government of the Colony of Connecticut
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Created a constitutional monarchy in England, meaning that the King or Queen acts as head of state but his or hers power is limited by law
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North American war between France and Great Britain
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The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government.
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Delegates from twelve of Britain’s thirteen American colonies met to discuss America’s future under growing British aggression.
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Months after shots were fired at Lexington and Concord, the congress was preparing for war. They elected George Washington as commander-in-chief.
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a document declaring the US to be independent of the British Crown, signed by the congressional representatives of the Thirteen Colonies, including Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams
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he original constitution of the US
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An uprising led by a former militia officer, Daniel Shays, which broke out in western Massachusetts in 1786. Shays's followers protested the foreclosures of farms for debt and briefly succeeded in shutting down the court system.
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a plan, unsuccessfully proposed at the Constitutional Convention, providing for a legislature of two houses with proportional representation in each house and executive and judicial branches to be chosen by the legislature
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an agreement made by the delegates of the Constitutional Convention saying that three fifths of a state’s slave population would count towards its total population
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a plan, unsuccessfully proposed at the Constitutional Convention, providing for a single legislative house with equal representation for each state.