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-Colonists wanted the British to decrease the taxes they put to the goods Britain sell to them.
-In Boston's harbor, colonists asked British to back up and go back, Britain refused, so they put hands in matter and threw all the tea in Britain's boats to the ocean.

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-“During the ratification debates over the Constitution, Thomas Jefferson wrote to James Madison that “a bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth.” Madison replied, in a letter of October, 1787, that he did not think the new government and Constitution were defective without a formal bill of rights, but agreed that its addition could be useful for securing liberty on occasions in the future. Americans would come to view a bill of rights, he wrote, as embodying the “fundamental maxims of free government” to which they could appeal on those occasions when government overstepped its constitutional bounds. In this, Madison predicted with great insight just how much the Bill of Rights would come to inform the constitutional mind of the American people.” (http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/adoption-of-the-first-ten-amendments/ )
-The Bill of Rights, then, means: a declaration of individual & fundamental rights and freedoms, usually issued by a national government, and put in each state of the constitution.

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The constitution of the United States encourages the population on being involved in the community. The people had finally voice to state their concerns.
"The habit of looking to the Constitution to resolve political disagreements has helped to foster and preserve a general unity among a people that is otherwise extremely diverse."(http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/constitution-of-the-united-states/, summary)

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The declaration of independence is a document which talks about the independence of the colonies from the british. It was made by the 2nd American Congresand was made on July, 4, 1776

-The declaration of independence was one of the first writings known to say all human are equal.

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The United Kingdom of Great Britain came into existence in 1707, when the governments of England and Scotland were united.

The monarch and the Parliament shared power as a result of the Bill of Rights. The monarch chose ministers which set policy and guided Parliament. Parliament's power to make laws, levy taxes, and pass the budget indirectly influenced the monarch's ministers. (WH&G: Modern Times, ch 8, l 4, pag.1)

“In the meantime, growing trade and industry led to an ever increasing middle class that favored the expansion of trade and of Britain's world empire. They found a spokesman in William Pitt the Elder, who became head of cabinet in 1757. He expanded the British Empire by acquiring Canada and India in the Seven Years' War.

In theory, the British Board of Trade, the Royal Council, and Parliament controlled the colonies. In actuality, the colonies had legislatures that often acted independently. Merchants in port cities such as Charleston, New York, and Boston did not want the British government to run their affairs” (WH&G: Modern Times, ch 8, l 4, pag.1)

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•Nations that support the colonies wanted revenge form Britain. France supplied arms and money to the colonies.
•When General Cornwallis was forced to surrender to the American and French forces under Washington at Yorktown in 1781, the British decided to end the war.
•The Treaty of Paris recognized the independence of the American colonies in 1783.

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•British imposed the Stamp Act after the Seven  Years War, this act required certain printed materials to carry a stamp showing that a tax had been paid to Britain. Colonies repealed this act in 1766, ending the immediate crisis, but the cause of the dispute was not resolved.
•Colonies organized the First Continental Progress in Philadelphia, September, 1774. They urged colonists to take up arms and organize militias.
•Fighting erupted between British army and colonists in April, 1775, in Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts.
•After that, the Second Continental Progress set up an army, called the Continental Army; George Washington served as chief commander.
•Colonies declared independence on July 4, 1776. The Second Continental Congress approved the Declaration of Independence written by Thomas Jefferson. The American Revolution formally started. (WH&Geography Ch.8 L.4 p.2)

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- New Congress proposed 12 amendments to the Constitution.
- States approved 10 of the amendments.
- These amendments were called the Bill of Rights.
- The Glorious Revolution of 1688 in England had also resulted in a Bill of Rights.
-  The Amendments gave freedom of religion, speech, press, petition, and assembly.
-  Gave Americans the right to bear arms and to be protected against unreasonable arrests, guaranteed trial by jury, due process of law, and the protection of property rights.
- Many Bill rights were derived from the natural rights proposed by the eighteenth-century philosophes and John Locke.
- European saw American Revolution as  confirmation of the premises of the Enlightenment

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- Constitution created a federal system, national and the state governments shared power
- Federal government was separated on 3 branches: Executive, Legislative and Judicial.
- Every branch controls the other 2 so it remains in balance.
- President leads the executive branch (why can be call presidential democracy).
- In the legislative branch  representatives lead in two houses: the Senate and the House of Representatives.
- Supreme Court and other courts formed  judicial branch.
- After ratification by 9 of the 13 states, the Constitution took effect.
(WH&Geography Ch.8 L.4 p.2)

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Acording to world history and Geography:
-British were overthrown

-Colonies feared the central government's power

- States made Articles of Confederation (1781)

- Confederation made a weak government that can't deal with problems of nation.

- Delegates at Constitutional Convention checked  Articles of Confederation

- Delegates redid the system of government.
(WH&Geography Ch.8 L.4 p.2)

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- British conquer the Colonies.
-Colonies are paying for stuff they dont have, but then thery start paying for stuff they did had and it was unfair.
-It was prohibited to grow their own products. Colonies didnt liked this.
-Colonies was helped by france to get independence.
-Colonies turned into america