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The French and Indian War was a conflict between France and Great Britain that took place in North America from 1754 to 1763 -
The Navigation Acts were a series of laws passed by the British Parliament that imposed restrictions on colonial trade. -
The Stamp Act was a tax passed by the British Parliament in 1765 that required colonists to pay a tax on paper goods -
The Quartering Act stated that Great Britain would house its soldiers in American barracks and public houses -
The Townshend Acts were intended to raise revenue for the British government to pay for governing the colonies. -
Nine British soldiers shot several of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing them verbally and throwing various projectiles. -
The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest on December 16, 1773, 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. -
(aka “The Shot Heard Around the World”)the first shot fired during the Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775. This event marked the beginning of the American Revolution. -
The Second Continental Congress was the de facto national government of the United States during the Revolutionary War. -
a document sent to King George III in 1775 by the Second Continental Congress. -
Common sense is "knowledge, judgement, and taste which is more or less universal and which is held more or less without reflection or argument". -
The Declaration of Independence, formally titled The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America in the engrossed version and original printing, is the founding document of the United States. -
The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union was an agreement among the 13 states of the United States, formerly the Thirteen Colonies, that served as the nation's first frame of government. -
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. -
met between May and September of 1787 to address the problems of the weak central government that existed under the Articles of Confederation.