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Salutary neglect: (1763) "hands off approach by Great Britain; British policy of loosely enforcing laws and regulations in the American colonies, allowing them to govern themselves -
French-Indian War (1756-1763), aka the 7 Years' War, between France and England. In the colonies, it was called the French Indian War because the colonists fought with British soldiers against France the Indians who were on side of France. Because of the war, England had a massive war debt began to tax the people in the 13 colonies -
a 1765 British tax on the American colonies requiring a tax stamp on legal documents, newspapers, playing cards, and other paper goods to help pay for British troops after the French and Indian War -
a series of British laws in the 1760s and 1770s that required colonial governments to provide housing, food, and supplies for British troops stationed in the American colonies, often in public houses, inns, or other available buildings -
The Townshend Acts were a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1767 to raise revenue from the American colonies by taxing imports of glass, paint, paper, and tea. Named for Chancellor of the Exchequer Charles Townshend, the acts also sought to strengthen enforcement by creating a new customs commission and punishing New York for not fully complying with the Quartering Act. Colonists opposed the acts, arguing that Parliament lacked the right to tax them without representation -
British soldiers shot into a crowd, killing three people and mortally wounding two more, during a chaotic scene on King Street in Boston -
a political act in which American colonists dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor on December 16, 1773, to protest the British Parliament's Tea Act and "taxation without representation" -
series of four laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 to punish the American colony of Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party -
a final plea from the Second Continental Congress to King George III in 1775, seeking a "happy and permanent reconciliation" to avoid war by appealing for the repeal of oppressive parliamentary acts -
the de facto government of the American colonies during the American Revolution -
the first military conflict of the American Revolutionary War -
the founding document by which the 13 American colonies declared their separation from Great Britain -
pamphlet written by Thomas Pain advocating independence -
the United States' first constitution, established between 1781 and 1789 -
a meeting of delegates from five states in Annapolis, Maryland, to address trade issues under the Articles of Confederation -
an uprising by indebted farmers in western Massachusetts from 1786 to 1787 who protested high taxes and debt collection -
secret meeting where delegates from 12 states (all but Rhode Island) drafted the U.S. Constitution to replace the weak Articles of Confederation