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This document limited the power of 

the king, and also gave basic civil 

rights to citizens.

The House of Burgess's was 

created in 1619, and was the 

first representative assembly in 

the American   colonies.

The Mayflower compact was an 

agreement established by the 

men who sailed to America, 

which called for the laws for 

the good of the colony and set 

forth the idea of self 

government. 

The New England colonies 

included these following 

colonies: Massachusetts, new 

Hampshire, Rhode Island, and 

Connecticut

The middle colonies included 

the following colonies: New 

York, New Jersey, 

Pennsylvania, and Delaware.

The Southern Colonies include 

these following colonies: 

Virginia, Maryland, North 

Carolina, South Carolina, and 

Georgia.

The British & the French fought 

for control of the land west of 

the Appalachain Mountains. 

Treaty that ended the French 

and Indian War, and granted 

the British all of the territory 

east of The Missouri River.

Proclamation that forbade the 

colonists to travel west of the 

Appalachain Mountains.

Placed a tax on sugar, 

molasses, and other products 

shipped to the colonists.

Law that required all loyal and 

commercial documents to carry 

a stamp showing that a tax 

had been paid.

Cost-saving measure that 

required the colonists to house 

British soldiers and provide 

them with supplies.

Placed more taxes, and 

suspended New York's 

assembly until New Yorkers 

agreed to provide housing for 

troops.

A fight between British soldiers 

and colonist in Boston, in which 

five colonist were killed. 

Colonists dumped 342 chests 

of tea into boston harbor, to 

protest the Tea Act.

A series of laws passed by 

parliament, that made the 

colonist pay for the damages of 

the Boston Tea Party.

This battle was fought between 

the British and Americans, 

mainly for weapons; 

ammunition; and to split the 

colonies in two, but mainly, 

this battle ignited the 

Revolutionary War.

The Declaration of 

Independence explains the 

reasons of self- government 

against British rules, 

reservation to conduct trade, 

foreign alliances and necessary 

rights to raise war.

This battle was the turning 

point of the Revolutionary War, 

this was where the Americans 

started to win.

This Battle ended the 

revolutionary war, the french 

helped Americans by 

blockading British ships, and 

helped America win 

Independence.

This document, adopted by the 

Continental congress in 1781, 

outlined the rules of the 

government for the new United 

States.

The Treaty of Paris 1783 

formally ended the American 

Revolution between the British 

and Americans.

The Northwest Ordinance (formally An 

Ordinance for the Government of the 

Territory of the United States, North-West 

of the River Ohio, and also known as the 

Freedom Ordinance) was an act of the 

Congress of the Confederation of the 

United States. The primary effect of the 

ordinance was the creation of the 

Northwest Territory as the first organized 

territory of the United States out of the 

region south of the Great Lakes

A compromise between the Virginia and 

New Jersey Plan, in which they decided 

to separate the branches into 3 

branches, legislative, executive, and 

judicial.

The Three-Fifths compromise was a 

compromise between Southern and Northern 

states reached during the Philadelphia 

Convention of 1787 in which three-fifths of the 

population of slaves would be counted for 

enumeration purposes regarding both the 

distribution of taxes and the apportionment of 

the members of the United States House of 

Representatives. 

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