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Conflicting claims between Great Britain and France over territory and waterways. -
Acts of Parliament intended to promote the self-sufficiency of the British Empire. -
Was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America. -
The Quartering Act stated that Great Britain would house its soldiers in American barracks and public houses. And if the soldiers outnumbered colonial housing, they would be quartered in inns, alehouses, barns, other buildings. -
initiated taxes on glass,lead, paint, paper , and tea. -
British sentries guarding the Boston Customs House shot into a crowd of civilians, killing three men and injuring eight, two of them mortally. -
The Boston Tea Party was an American politician and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts -
a series of 4 laws passed by the british parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party -
Were some of the leading military engagements of the American Revolutionary -
late 18th century meeting of delegates from the Thirteen colonies that united in support. -
To be sent to the King as a last attempt to prevent formal war from being declared -
47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. -
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, is the founding document of the United States. -
The Articles of Confederation were adopted by the Continental Congress on November 15, 1777. This document served as the United States' first constitution. It was in force from March 1, 1781, until 1789 when the present-day Constitution went into effect. -
uprising in western Massachusetts in opposition to high taxes and stringent economic conditions. Armed bands forced the closing of several courts to prevent execution of foreclosures and debt processes. -
The Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia met between May and September of 1787 to address the problems of the weak central government that existed under the Articles of Confederation