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The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war provided Great Britain huge territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war's expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution. -
were acts of Parliament deliberate
to promote the self-sufficiency of the British Empire by restricting colonial trade to England and decreasing dependence on foreign imported goods. -
made the colonists pay taxes, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards. -
stated that Great Britain would house its soldiers in American barracks and public houses. And if the soldiers outnumbered colonial housing, they would be quartered in inns, alehouses, barns, other buildings, -
initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. -
7 British soldiers fired into a crowd of volatile Bostonians, killing five, wounding another six, and angering an entire colony. -
was an American political and threw boxes of tea into the boston harbor ocean -
a series of four laws punish Massachusetts for the Boston tea party. -
consent by the Congress to be sent to the King as a last attempt to prevent formal war from being declared. -
The first battle of the revolution -
original daft written by Thomas Jefferson listed grievances (complaints) against england announces American independence. -
pamphlet written by Thomas Paine advocating independence from great British to people in the thirteen colonies. -
1st constitution establishes a firm league of friendship with a weak national government. -
established a Continental army and elected George Washington as Commander-in-Chief, but the delegates also drafted the Olive Branch Petition and sent it to King George III in hopes of reaching a peaceful resolution. The king refused to hear the petition and declared the American colonies in revolt. -
Shays' Rebellion did not succeed. For many, the rebellion symbolized a fatal weakness of the national government under the Articles of Confederation. Because the Congress had no power to raise money, it could not help the states pay off their war debts, which made the states to tax their citizens heavily. -
they met to address the problem of the weak central government which the article of confederation