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War between France and England. After the war, England was in major debt, and started taxing the colonies. 1756-1763 -
Long series of English laws banning foreign trade with the colonies, promoting English trade. -
Law by England put on the colonies taxing on various forms of papers, including documents and playing cards. -
Law requiring the colonies to house and feed British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies. -
Series of laws passed by Parliament in 1767, taxing all goods imported to the colonies. Named after Charles Townshend, who proposed the laws. -
British soldiers shoot and kill several people and injure several more in a "patriot" mob of protestors. -
Protest by the Sons of Liberty in the Boston Harbor where colonists dressed up as Indians board English ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor. -
Series of 4 laws passed by Parliament as a punishment for the Boston Tea Party. Laws include: closing the boston harbor, replacing the elective local government with an appointed one, allowing charged British officers to be tried again in England, and a new quartering act. -
First military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
Meeting of the delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies establishing a continental army and electing George Washington as Commander-in-Chief. -
Petition to be sent to the King as a last attempt to prevent formal war from being declared. -
47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the 13 colonies. -
Document that was approved by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, and that announced the separation of the 13 colonies from Great Britain. -
Agreement among the 13 original states that served as its first constitution. -
Armed uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester in response to a debt crisis and increased efforts to collect taxes. 1786-1787 -
Convention in Philadelphia to decide how America was going to be governed. May 14, 1787 - September 17, 1787