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The french and Indian war put the British in a never deep debt -
hands off approach by Great Britain; British policy of loosely enforcing laws and regulations in the American colonies, allowing them to govern themselves. -
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. -
if you bought anything that was paper needed a stamp on it which costed a additional fee -
a 1767 series of British laws that imposed new taxes on goods like tea, glass, paper, paint, and lead imported by the American colonies, aiming to raise revenue for Britain to cover war debts and colonial administration costs -
forced residents to allowed British troops to live within their homes -
a deadly confrontation on March 5, 1770, in which British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists in Boston, killing five people -
a political protest in 1773 where American colonists dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to protest the British Tea Act and the lack of "taxation without representation" -
a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party. -
a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party. -
he first military conflict of the American Revolutionary War -
the de facto government of the American colonies during the American Revolution -
The Declaration of Independence, formally The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America in the original printing, is the founding document of the United States. -
a book written by Thomas paine -
a meeting of delegates from five states in Annapolis, Maryland, to discuss and propose solutions for the economic and commercial problems under the Articles of Confederation -
an armed uprising by Massachusetts farmers, led by Daniel Shays, against high taxes and unresponsive government under the Articles of Confederation -
a pivotal 1787 meeting in Philadelphia where delegates from 12 states drafted the United States Constitution, replacing the weak Articles of Confederation with a stronger federal government -
The Articles of Confederation was the United States' first constitution, established between 1781 and 1789, creating a weak central government with most power residing in the individual states. Lacking key functions like a power to tax or regulate commerce, and a separate executive or judicial branch, the national government struggled to operate effectively, leading to the creation of the U.S. Constitution in 1787.