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aka 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. -
It was a tax on anything paper like, playing cards, news papers -
a British parliamentary act requiring American colonial legislatures to pay for and provide housing, food, and supplies for British soldiers stationed in the colonies, often in public houses or inns -
Passed by British Parliament in 1767, the Townshend Acts placed duties on imported glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea to pay for colonial administration, aiming to assert authority and weaken smuggling -
On March 5, 1770, seven British soldiers fired into a crowd of volatile Bostonians, killing five, wounding another six, and angering an entire colony. -
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest on December 16, 1773, where colonists, disguised as Native Americans, dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to protest the British Tea Act -
The Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts) were four 1774 British parliamentary acts designed to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party, closing Boston Harbor, suspending self-government, and enabling royal trials -
served as the de facto national government during the American Revolution -
a final attempt by American colonists to avoid war with Britain -
were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War, marking the start of armed conflict between 13 colonies and Great Britain -
The Declaration of Independence, formally The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America in the original printing, is the founding document of the United States. -
was a meeting aimed at constructing uniform parameters to regulate trade between states during a time of political turbulence and economic strain -
in Philadelphia, PA, was organized to address the weak central government under the -
served as the first U.S. constitution, establishing a weak central government and a "league of friendship" among the 13 sovereign states to manage the Revolutionary War -
an American soldier, revolutionary and farmer famous for allegedly leading Shays' Rebellion, a populist uprising against controversial debt collection and tax policies that took place in Massachusetts between 1786 and 1787.