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The French and Indian War was a theater of the Seven Years' War, which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French -
A series of laws passed by the British Parliament that imposed restrictions on colonial trade -
Required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing card -
Stated that Great Britain would house its soldiers in American barracks and public houses. -
Initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. -
British soldiers fired into a crowd of Bostonians, killing five, wounding another six, and angering an entire colony. -
Protest British Parliament's tax on tea. "No taxation without representation." -
A series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. -
Adopted by Congress to be sent to the King as a last attempt to prevent formal war from being declared. -
Marked the start of the American War of Independence -
The late 18th-century meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that united in support of the American Revolution and the Revolutionary War -
47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine -
Declaring independence -
An agreement among the 13 states of the United States, formerly the Thirteen Colonies -
An armed uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester in response to a debt crisis among the citizenry and in opposition to the state government's increased efforts to collect taxes on both individuals and their trades -
Addressing the problems of the weak central government that existed under the Articles of Confederation.