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in 1765 British tax on the American colonies requiring a tax stamp on legal documents, newspapers, playing cards, and other paper goods to help pay for British troops after the French and Indian War -
series of British laws that required colonial governments to provide housing, food, and supplies for British troops -
British parliamentary acts imposing duties on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea imported into the American colonies -
where British soldiers fired into a crowd of angry colonists, killing five people and wounding several others in Boston -
when American patriots, disguised as Native Americans, dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to protest the Tea Act -
also known as the Coercive Acts, intended to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party -
marked the first military conflicts of the American Revolutionary War. -
the de facto government of the American colonies during the American Revolution -
a final attempt by the Second Continental Congress to avoid war and reconcile with Great Britain -
47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. -
founding document of the United States that formally announced the separation of the Thirteen Colonies from Great Britain -
creating a weak central government with most power residing in the individual states -
led by Revolutionary War veteran Daniel Shays, protesting burdensome taxes and debt collection after the Revolutionary War -
to address the economic and trade problems under the Articles of Confederation -
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to revise the Articles of Confederation but ultimately ended up drafting the United States Constitution