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Jan 26, 1215
Magna Carta
gave equal rights -
Jamestown
First settlement founded in the New World -
House of Burgess
legislature -
Plymouth Rock
pilgrims landed on it (don't know the date btw) -
Mayflower Compact
first governing document -
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
helped shape the government -
Culpeper's Rebellion
took action for rights and it was against trade laws -
Glorious Revolution
English rise up against the tyrant king -
English Bill of Rights
rights for the English -
Salem Witch Trials
trials that got people killed for being a witch/ using witchcraft -
Albany Plan of Union
made one power -
Proclamation line of 1763
banned british people settling west of the Appalachian Mountains -
Committees of Correspondence
coordinates actions against Great Britain -
Sugar Act of 1764
reduced tax on molasses -
Stamp Act
direct tax on molasses -
Townshend Act
indirect tax on tea -
Boston Massacre
arguement that killed few -
Tea Act
limited tea sales -
Boston Tea Party
Sons of Liberty dumped a shipment of tea into the harbor -
Edenton Tea Party
response to the tea act -
Mecklenburg Resolves
list of statements reputed to have been introduced Mecklenburg -
Halifax Resolves
resolution adopted by the fourth provincial congress -
Declaration of Independence
made the colonies independent -
Land of Ordinance of 1785
made a public land system -
Land of Ordinance of 1787
created the northwest territory -
Federalist/Anti-Federalist Papers
does/doesn't support the new government plan -
Intolerable Acts
punished the colonists
