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A war that lasted for seven years between French and Great Britain. They were fighting to control North Carolina's land. -
The colonies had to sell certain products. A series of laws designed to restrict England carrying trade to English ships. -
It taxed the colonies on paper. It meant that all legal documents and printed papers used in American colonies had to have an official stamp. -
The colonists were being taxed for provisions and barracks for the army. It required colonial legislatures to pay to house the troops. -
Tax on tea, paper, lead, paint, etc imported into the American colonies. It taxed goods that were shipped into the American colonies -
It began as a street brawl between American colonists and a lone soldier that quickly turned to a chaotic bloody slaughter. It helped spark the colonist's desire for American Independence. -
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest. The colonists dumped 342 chests of tea imported by the British East India Company into the harbor. It was the first major act of defiance to British rule over the colonists. -
The intolerable acts were to punish the colony of Massachusetts bay for the Boston Tea Party -
The battle of Lexington & Concord was the first battle of the Revolutionary War. -
Raising the Continental army through conscription and appointed George Washington to be the general to lead the army. It declares allegiance to the crown. -
The Petition affirms their loyalty to the British crown and emphasizes their rights as British citizens. -
It made a case for independence and directly attacked the political-economic and ideological obstacles to achieve it. -
The Ideals are equality, the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, consent of the Governed, and the right to alter or abolish the government. -
Was not strong enough to enforce laws or raise taxes. It had a weak central government. Leaving the rest of the power to the state goverments. -
Was an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester of farmers and countrymen against the state of Massachusetts. It further called for a stronger national goverment. -
The point of the event was to decide how America was going to be governed. It was to address the problems of a weak central government that was under the Articles of Confederation.