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French Indian war was caused because of a conflict between Great Britain and France over control of North American territory. -
England saw the colonies as a market for English goods wanted to get money natural resources from the colonies. -
British policy of loosely enforcing laws and regulations in the American colonies, allowing them to govern themselves. -
Stamp Act was a British tax on the American colonies that required a tax stamp on documents, playing cards, and more paper goods to pay for British troops after the French Indian War. -
Quartering Act required American colonies to provide a place to stay and supplies for British troops. -
The British parliamentary townshend act was named after, Charles Townshend, which imposed taxes on colonial imports of goods like, lead, paper, tea etc. -
The Boston Massacre was a deadly day, when British soldiers fired shots into a crowd of angry colonists, killing five people and wounding others. -
The Boston Tea Party had a political protest that took place in December of, 1773, in Boston, Massachusetts, where American colonists, dumped 342 chests of tea from British ships into Boston Harbor. -
The Intolerable Acts was a series of laws passed by the British Parliament to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party. -
The first military mess up of the American Revolution, where the colonial military confronted British forces attempting to take weapons and arrest leaders from colonials in Concord. -
A final plea from the Second Continental Congress to King George III, written primarily by John Dickinson, to avoid a war and find a "happy and permanent reconciliation" with the British Empire. -
The Second Continental Congress provided the real national government for the American colonies during the Revolutionary War, -
It was a 47 page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine who supported independence from Great Britain. -
The original document by which the 13 American colonies declared their separation from Great Britain. -
Annapolis Convention was a meeting of delegates from many states to discuss the regulation of interstate trade and other economic issues. -
The United States' first constitution, established between 1781 and 1789. -
An uprising by indebted farmers in western Massachusetts, against high taxes and stringent debt collection, leading to protests, court disruptions, and attack on a state arsenal. -
The Constitutional Convention was a meeting in Philadelphia where representatives drafted the U.S. Constitution to make a stronger federal government than the one under the Articles of Confederation.