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The British began to enact policies that set the stage for the American Revolution. Paying the war's expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution. -
The Acts prohibited colonies from exporting specific, enumerated, products to countries.a series of laws designed to restrict England's carrying trade to English ships. -
On March 22, 1765, the British Parliament passed the “Stamp Act” to help pay for the British troops stationed in the colonies during the Seven Year War. -
initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. -
British soldiers fought into a crowd killing five, wounding another six, and angering an entire colony. -
on 16 December 1773 the American colonists, disguised as Mohawk Indians boarded British ships and threw 340 chests of tea owned by the East India Company into the water. -
allowed royal governors than colonial legislatures, to find homes and buildings to quarter or house British soldiers. -
four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. -
the famous 'shot heard 'round the world', marked the start of the American War of Independence (1775-83). -
A plan for the further responses if the British government did not repeal or modify the acts. -
The Olive Branch Petition was adopted by Congress on July 5, 1775, to be sent to the King as a last attempt to prevent formal war from being declared. -
adopted by the Continental Congress -
the need for American independence arguments for plain language that made it political. -
adopted by the Continental Congress This document served as the United States' first constitution. -
A violent insurrection in the Massachusetts countryside during 1786 and 1787
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to address the problems of the weak central government that existed under the Articles of Confederation.