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Also known as the Seven Years' War, it was a conflict 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 the 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. -
A law passed in the 1760s and 1770s that required American colonists to provide housing, food, and supplies for British soldiers. -
a tax on the American colonies requiring a tax stamp on legal documents, newspapers, playing cards, and other paper goods -
A series of British parliamentary measures that imposed taxes on colonial imports of goods like glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. -
a confrontation in Boston, Massachusetts, where British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists, killing five people and wounding others. -
a political protest in Boston, Massachusetts, where American colonists, disguised as Indian people, dumped tea from the British East India Company into Boston Harbor -
A punitive British law was passed, primarily to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party. -
The first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War -
a final plea from the Second Continental Congress to King George III to avoid a full-scale war by affirming loyalty to the Crown and requesting a repeal of oppressive parliamentary measures. -
The governing body of the American colonies from 1775 to 1781 -
The foundational document of the United States officially cut the colonies' political ties with Great Britain. -
A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine advocating independence from Great Britain to the people in the Thirteen Colonies. -
The United States' first constitution
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A meeting where delegates from five states discussed issues under the Articles of Confederation. -
An armed uprising by the Massachusetts farmers, led by the Revolutionary War. -
A meeting with 55 delegates in Philadelphia which drafted the U.S. Constitution.