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fourh and most decesive war happens in the colonies: known as the Seven Years War in Europe
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provided an intercolonial government & system for recruiting troops & collecting taxes from colonies for defense
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tried to destroy the power of the Whig aristocrats
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required colonists to provide food & living for stationed British soldiers
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an effort to raise funds to support british military forces in the colonies
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resolved that only their own elected represenatives had the legal authority to approve taxes
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Four acts of the British Parliament in 1767 that imposed duties on the import of paint, glass, paper, lead, and tea to the North American colonies
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a riot in Boston arising from the resentment of Boston colonists toward British troops quartered in the city, in which the troops fired on the mob and killed several people
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a direct action protest by colonists in Boston, colony of against the British government
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An act passed in 1774 by the British Parliament to establish French civil law and allow the practice of the Roman Catholic religion in the province of Quebec.
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Measures passed by the British Parliament in 1774 as a reprisal for American colonial resistance to the Tea Act of 1773
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federal legislature of the Thirteen Colonies and later of the United States in the American Revolution and under the Articles of Confederation
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divided into two groups where one group thought colonies should declare independence and one hoped conflict could be resolved by negotiating
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a plan/document to protect the power of the individual states
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a declaraton that declared for colonies to be independent
