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a long series of english laws that developed, promoted, and regulated English ships, shipping, trade and commerce between other countries and with its own colonies.
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Because of the French-Indian War England owed huge debt. England goes from salutary neglect to mercantilism.
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helped pay taxes for British troops stationed in the colonies during the Seven years war.
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required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies
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a series of laws passed by the British government on the American colonies
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a confrontation in which British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in Boston
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an American political and mercantile protest by the sons of Liberty
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punitive laws passed by the British Parliament
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the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary war
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a meeting of delegates from the Thirteen colonies in America which united in the American Revolutionary War
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a final attempt by the colonists to avoid going to war with Britain
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a 47 page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775 - 1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies
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the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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an agreement among the 13 original states of the USA that served as its first constitution
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an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester in response to a debt crisis among the citizenry and in opposition to the state government’s increased efforts to collect taxes both on individuals and their trades.
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The point of the event was to decide on how America was going to be governed, but it was officially called to revise the existing Articles of Confederation, many delegates had much bigger plans.
