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"hands off approach by Great Britain; British policy of loosely enforcing laws and regulations in the American colonies, allowing them to govern themselves. -
British parliamentary law that imposed a tax on all printed materials in the American colonies, including newspapers, legal documents, pamphlets, and playing cards -
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 series of parliamentary laws passed in 1767 by the British Parliament, named for Charles Townshend, to raise revenue from the American colonies by taxing imports of goods like tea, glass, lead, paint, and paper -
was a deadly confrontation that took place on March 5, 1770, when British soldiers opened fire on a crowd of American colonists in Boston, killing five people. -
a political demonstration on December 16, 1773, where American colonists, disguised as Native Americans, boarded three British ships in Boston Harbor and dumped 342 chests of tea overboard -
a 47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. -
the founding document adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which formally declared the thirteen American colonies' separation from Great Britain -
marked the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War -
British parliamentary measures, particularly the Act of 1765 and the 1774 revision, that required American colonial governments to provide housing, supplies, and transportation for British soldiers stationed in the colonies -
a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party -
a convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that functioned as the de facto national government from May 1775 to March 1781, overseeing the war effort against Great Britain during the American Revolution -
a final, last-ditch appeal by the Second Continental Congress to King George III in July 1775, seeking a peaceful reconciliation with Great Britain despite the ongoing American Revolutionary War -
the first governing document of the United States, establishing a "league of friendship" between the states with a weak central government and a single-house Congress -
a 1786 meeting in Annapolis, Maryland, of delegates from five states (New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Virginia) to discuss regulating interstate trade under the weak Articles of Confederation -
a meeting of delegates to either draft a new constitution or revise an existing one -
an armed uprising by debt-ridden farmers and Revolutionary War veterans in western Massachusetts from 1786 to 1787, led by Daniel Shays