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War fought between France and Great Britain to determine control of the last colonial territory of North America. -
British Parliament Imposed Restrictions on colonial trade. The British wanted to promote self-sufficiency. -
A tax on the colonies that required the colonists to have a stamp on all legal documents. -
Law requiring colonial authorities to provide food, drink, quarters, fuel, and transportation to British forces stationed in their towns or homes. -
Taxed goods imported to the colonies from britain. -
In february of 1770 tensions begin to grow and a mob attacks british soldiers and they got shot and killed. -
A group of 60 American colonists threw 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to revolt against a tax on tea. -
Laws meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest -
The Olive Branch Petition was adopted by Congress on July 5th, 1775 to be sent to the King as a last attempt to prevent formal war from being declared. -
The battles were fought on April 19, 1775 in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, and Cambridge. -
The Second Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies in America that united in the American Revolutionary War. -
On January 9, 1776, writer Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet “Common Sense,” setting forth his arguments in favor of American independence. -
Declaration of Independence, document approved by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, that announced the separation of 13 North American British Colonies from Great Britain. -
The Articles of Confederation served as the written document that established the functions of the national government of the United States after it declared independence from Great Britain. -
Shays's Rebellion was an uprising in western Massachusetts in opposition to high taxes and stringent economic conditions. -
The Constitutional Convention was a formal meeting held in 1787 for the purpose of creating a constitution for the United States.