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The 7 Years' War 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. -
Beginning in 1763, England's economic policy was followed when it came to the 13 colonies. England saw the colonies as a market for English goods wanted to get money (taxes) natural resources from the colonies. -
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. -
a series of British parliamentary acts in the 18th century that required American colonies to provide lodging and supplies for British troops, which led to widespread colonial opposition. -
A series of British parliamentary acts named after Charles Townshend, imposing taxes and duties on goods like glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea to pay for colonial administration and recoup war debt. -
This was a deadly 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 patriots, disguised as Indigenous people, dumped 342 chests of tea from the British East India Company into Boston Harbor. -
a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the American colony of Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party. -
announced the separation of 13 British colonies from Great Britain and explained their reasons. -
a final plea from the Second Continental Congress to King George III, seeking to avoid armed conflict with Great Britain by affirming colonial loyalty and requesting the repeal of parliamentary statutes that they claimed fueled conflict. -
Was the governing body of the American colonies -
It marked the first open military confrontation between Great Britain and the American colonies. -
A widely-read pamphlet by Thomas Paine, published in 1776, that argued for American independence from Great Britain. -
The first constitution of the United States, adopted by the Continental Congress -
Is an armed insurrection by Massachusetts farmers, led by Revolutionary War veteran Daniel Shays, who protested high taxes and the resulting foreclosures on their farms under the Articles of Confederation. -
It was a meeting of delegates from only five states (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Virginia) to address trade regulation issues under the Articles of Confederation. -
There was a secret meeting in Philadelphia where delegates from twelve states drafted a new U.S. Constitution, replacing the weak Articles of Confederation with a federal system of government.