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The French Indian War fought in the American Colonies and the British gained outstanding territory in North America as the result of the war. -
The Navigation Acts were a series of laws passed by the British Parliament that was forced restrictions on colonial trade. -
Stamp Act was a tax on paper. But not on England. -
The Quartering Act were requiring colonial authorities to provide food, drink, quarters, fuel, and transportation to British forces stationed in their towns or villages. -
The Townshend Act taxed goods imported to the American colonies. -
The Boston Massacre had a major impact on relations between Britain and the American colonists -
Incident in which 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company were thrown from ships into Boston Harbor by American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians. -
Punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party. -
the final effort of the Second Continental Congress to persuade King George III of England to respond to the concerns of the American Colonists and to settle their differences amicably -
it took the momentous step of declaring America's independence from Britain -
the start of the American War of Independence -
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 introductory sentence states the Declaration's main purpose, to explain the colonists' right to revolution. -
written document that established the functions of the national government of the United States after it declared independence from Great Britain. -
Uprising in western Massachusetts in opposition to high taxes and stringent economic conditions. -
to address the problems of the weak central government that existed under the Articles of Confederation.