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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. -
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. -
The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British soldiers on March 5, 1770, in Boston, which intensified the growing political tensions between the colonies and Great Britain and helped ignite the American Revolution. British troops had been sent to Boston to enforce unpopular taxes and quell unrest, leading to frequent conflicts with the colonists before the deadly confrontation. -
a British tax on the American colonies that required a stamp to be purchased and affixed to various paper goods, including legal documents, newspapers, and playing cards, to show the tax was paid -
a series of British laws passed in the 18th century that required American colonies to provide housing and supplies for British soldiers -
a 1767 series of British laws that imposed import duties on American colonies for goods like glass, lead, paper, paint, and tea, aiming to raise revenue and increase British control following the French and Indian War -
The Intolerable Acts, known as the Coercive Acts in Britain, were a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 to punish the American colony of Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party -
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest on December 16, 1773, where American colonists, disguised as Native Americans, dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to protest the Tea Act and taxation without representation -
The Battles of Lexington and Concord, occurring on April 19, 1775, are known as "the shot heard 'round the world" because they ignited the American Revolutionary War, the first military engagement between the American colonies and Great Britain, and inspired a global fight for independence. -
The Olive Branch Petition was a final attempt by the Second Continental Congress to avoid war with Great Britain, signed by delegates on July 5, 1775, after the fighting had already begun at Lexington and Concord. -
Thomas Paine's Common Sense is a 1776 pamphlet that argued for American independence from Great Britain, using plain language to challenge the legitimacy of monarchy and the British government's rule over the colonies. -
The United States Declaration of Independence, adopted on July 4, 1776, is the document in which the 13 American colonies declared their independence from Great Britain. -
The Second Continental Congress was the governing body of the American colonies from 1775 to 1781, acting as the interim government during the Revolutionary War. -
The Annapolis Convention of 1786 was a meeting of delegates from five states (New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Virginia) in Annapolis, Maryland, to discuss interstate trade barriers and economic problems under the Articles of Confederation. -
Project Shays's Rebellion was an uprising in western Massachusetts from 1786–1787, led by former Continental Army captain Daniel Shays, in response to high taxes, economic hardship, and unfair debt practices under the Articles of Confederation. -
The Constitutional Convention, or Philadelphia Convention, met in Philadelphia in 1787 to address the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation, ultimately drafting the United States Constitution to create a stronger federal government. -
The Articles of Confederation was the first constitution of the United States, in effect from 1781 to 1789, establishing a weak central government with limited powers. -
Beginning in 1763 economic policy England followed when it came to the 13 colonies. England saw the colonies as a market for English goods wanted to get money (taxes) natural resources from the colonies.