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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 -
Beginning in 1763 economic policy England followed when it came to the 13 colonies. England saw the colonies as a market for English goods wanted to get money (taxes) natural resources from the colonies. -
hands off approach by Great Britain; British policy of loosely enforcing laws and regulations in the American colonies, allowing them to govern themselves -
1756 - 1763 aka 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 -
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. -
a deadly confrontation between British soldiers and American colonists that occurred on March 5 1770, in Boston, Massachusetts. -
a political protest that took place on December 16, 1773, in Boston, Massachusetts, where American colonists, disguised as Mohawk Indians, dumped 342 chests of tea from the British East India Company into Boston Harbor -
a series of four British laws passed in 1774 in response to the Boston Tea Party, aiming to punish Massachusetts and reassert British control -
adopted by Congress on July 5, 1775, to be sent to the King as a last attempt to prevent formal war from being declared -
God made all men equal and gave them the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. -
appointed George Washington as commander of the Continental Army, and authorized the raising of the army through conscription. On July 4, 1776 -
created a sovereign, national government, and, as such, limited the rights of the states to conduct their own diplomacy and foreign policy. -
marked the start of the American War of Independence (1775-83). Politically disastrous for the British, it persuaded many Americans to take up arms and support the cause of independence. -
constructing uniform parameters to regulate trade between states during a time of political turbulence and economic strain -
A violent insurrection in the Massachusetts countryside during 1786 and 1787, Shays' Rebellion was brought about by a monetary debt crisis at the end of the American Revolutionary War. -
met between May and September of 1787 to address the problems of the weak central government that existed under the Articles of Confederation.