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aka the 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. -
"hands off approach by Great Britain; British policy of loosely enforcing laws and regulations in the American colonies, allowing them to govern themselves. -
British law that directly taxed paper goods -
taxes on American colonies for goods like glass, lead, paper, paint, and tea to raise revenue for Britain -
required American colonists to provide housing, food, and supplies for British soldiers stationed in North America after the French and Indian War -
the killing of five American colonists by British soldiers -
American colonists, disguised as Native Americans, boarded three ships and dumped 342 chests of British tea into Boston Harbor -
laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party -
marked the start of the American Revolutionary War -
a final plea from the Second Continental Congress to King George III, sent in July 1775, in a last-ditch effort to avoid a full-scale war with Britain by expressing the colonies' loyalty and seeking reconciliation