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In 1215 King Was forced to sign a document. This document proposed the idea that the people should hve some power in goverment decisions. The power of the dictator should be limited. It also provided protection aginst unjust goverment. Origanally applied to nobility only. Over the years people gained more liberties.
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First Legislature in america, established right after jamestown.
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First example of many plans for self goverment. Forty one men, represented pilgrim families. It was mad inside a small cabin of the mayflower. Leaders later realized they needed more rules.
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King William and Queen mary swore to govern according to english bill of rights. Bill Of Rights. The bill set clear limits to how the could govern. This applied to american colinists and the people pf england.
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Threatened Britains hold on the continent.
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First direct tax to colonists. Tax on any legal document. Even dice and playing cards. Parliament also passed laws that helped to help great britain.
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A group of american colinests jumped on british ships and threw all the tea in the ocean. It was in order to protess high taxes.
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A plan to boycott english good in the colonies. They also accomplished a second continental congress.
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First engement in american revolutionary war. First shots were fired on sunrise in lexington. 500 hundred militia men fought three companies of the kings men and ultimently lost.
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The second congress meating that included 13 colonies to protest great britain. The first congress created this one. They met over the the war.
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A declaration was signed for the independece of great britain. This marked us separating from great britain. This marked the end of the war. 50 men signed it.
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13 states agreed on this as the first declaration. Inteaded to creat cooperation between the 13 states.
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HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY and the United States of America, desirous of terminating the war which has unhappily subsisted between the two countries, and of restoring, upon principles of perfect reciprocity, peace, friendship, and good understanding between them, have, for that purpose, appointed their respective Plenipotentiaries,
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People took up arms in central massechuses. Named after daniel shays, A veteran of the aerican revolutionary war.
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The most contentious disputes revolved around the composition and election of the Senate. Whether to divide the executive power between three persons or invest the power into a single president.
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States represented themselves. In addition to dealing with legislative representation, the Virginia Plan addressed other issues as well, with many provisions that did not make it into the Constitution that emerged. It called for a national government of three branches.
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The principle that representation in the House of Representatives would be in proportion to the relative state populations was unanimously accepted. However, since slaves could not vote.
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The New Jersey Plan (also widely known as the Small State Plan or the Paterson Plan) was a proposal for the structure of the United States Government presented by William Paterson at the Constitutional Co\nvention on June 15, 1787.[
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The Connecticut Compromise (also known as the Great Compromise of 1787 or Sherman's Compromise) was an agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States Constitution. It retained the bicameral legislature as proposed by Roger Sherman, along with proportional representation in the lower house, but required the upper house to be weighted equa
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A collective name for the first 10 amendments. Gave the people more independent freedoms.
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Ratification of the Constitution by the State of Rhode Island. The ratifaction was very long. One of the last of the thirteen states to ratifies.
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The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade took place across the Atlantic Ocean from the 16th through to the 19th centuries. The vast majority of slaves transported to the New World were Africans from the central and western parts of the continent, sold by Africans to European slave traders who then transported them to North and South America.
