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The first representative assembly in the colonies. In Virginia

To cancel, as in the Stamp Act

A king or a queen

Another name for the representatives 12 of the colonies sent to Philadelphia

Group of people in one place who are ruled by a parent country elsewhere

Was given the right to ship tea to the colonies without paying most of the taxes usually placed on tea

An agreement among a group of people

This required colonists to attach expensive tax stamps to all newspapers and legal documents.

Theory that a country should sell more goods to other countries than it buys

Written document granting land and the authority to set up a colonial government

A law making body

The British legislature

Written plan of government set up by the Pilgrims

The group of merchants in London who owned Jamestown

Stated that Parliament had the right to tax and make decisions for the colonies in all cases.

Another name for the ‘Intolerable Acts’

Wrote that all people should equally enjoy the rights to life, liberty, and property

The first battles of the Revolutionary War.

To rest on court decisions rather than regulations made by law makers

Long and costly war with France that ended in 1763

Peaceful transfer of power from James II to William and Mary in England

Action in 1773 to protest further taxes on tea.

Self reliance and freedom from outside control

“That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the ___?____ of the ____?____...”

Wrote Common Sense

First English settlement

To refuse to buy

Farmer and leader of the rebellion in Massachusetts in 1786, 1787

Colonists who settled in the colony of Plymouth

The Massachusetts Constitution in 1780 was ratified by who/whom?

First colony to organize as a state and create a constitution

First constitution of the United States

The Articles of Confederation placed most of the nation’s power where?

Single branch in the Confederation government?

To approve

Official document that ended the Revolutionary War with Great Britain

A two house legislature is called this

Part of a constitution that guarantees certain basic freedoms

Name of the King that signed the Magna Carta

A group of individuals who band together for a common purpose

A one house legislature

Detailed written plan of government

To change

City where 12 delegates were sent to revise the Articles of Confederation

Name of the King which was removed by Parliament in 1688 during the Glorious Revolution