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The French and Indian War began in 1756 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war provided Great Britain enormous 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. -
Laws that restricted colonial trade; England told colonies they could only sell their goods to England. -
A tax on anything on paper. The act required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards. -
The Quartering Act stated that Great Britain would house its soldiers in American barracks and public houses. -
initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. -
A clash between British troops and townspeople in Boston in 1770, before the Revolutionary War . -
The Boston Tea Party was an American political protest on December 16, 1773, by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts. -
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 on July 5, 1775, to be sent to the King as a last attempt to prevent formal war from being declared. -
The Battles of Lexington and Concord was the first major military campaign of the American Revolutionary War. -
states the principles on which our government, and our identity as Americans, are based. -
Common Sense outlined the need for American independence. -
The Articles of Confederation and was an agreement among the 13 states of the United States. -
The Second Continental Congress was the late 18th-century meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that united in support of the American Revolution and the Revolutionary War -
Shays's Rebellion was an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester in response to a debt crisis. -
The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia met between May and September of 1787 to address the problems of the weak central government that existed under the Articles of Confederation.