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conflicting claims between Great Britain and France over territory and waterways -
Acts of Parliament intended to promote the self-sufficiency of the British Empire. -
Was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America. -
The Quartering Acts were two or more Acts of the British Parliament requiring local governments of Britain's North American colonies to provide the British soldiers with housing and food. -
Initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. -
nine British soldiers shot several of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, at the British soldiers. -
The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts. -
a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. -
were some of the leading military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
late-18th-century meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that united in support of the American Revolution and its associated Revolutionary War that established American independence from the British Empire -
to be sent to the King as a last attempt to prevent formal war from being declared -
47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. -
Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, is the founding document of the United States. -
the written document that established the functions of the national government of the United States after it declared independence from Great Britain. -
was 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 on both individuals and their trades. -
took place in Philadelphia. Although the convention was intended to revise the league of states and the first system of government under the articles of confederation.