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The Declaration of Independence is the founding document of the United States, adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, declaring the Thirteen Colonies' separation from Great Britain. Written primarily by Thomas Jefferson -
The Boston Massacre did not occur in 1763, but on March 5, 1770. The user's query contains a factual error regarding the date. -
aka 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 side of France. Because of the war, England had a massive war debt began to tax the people in the 13 colonies. -
Beginning in 1763 economic policy England 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. -
he Stamp Act was a 1765 British parliamentary law imposing a direct tax on the American colonies to raise revenue to help pay for British troops and the costs from the French and Indian War. The act taxed various paper goods like legal documents, newspapers, and playing cards. -
The Quartering Acts were a series of British parliamentary laws in the 1760s and 1770s requiring American colonists to provide housing and supplies for British soldiers, which colonists widely opposed as a violation of property rights and a form of taxation without representation, contributing to the growing tensions that led to the American Revolutionary War. -
hands off approach by Great Britain; British policy of loosely enforcing laws and regulations in the American colonies, allowing them to govern themselves. -
The Townshend Acts were a series of British laws passed in 1767 and 1768 that imposed duties on colonial imports of glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea to generate revenue and assert Parliament's -
Common sense is the practical, basic judgment or knowledge needed to navigate everyday situations, allowing people to make sound, reasonable decisions based on experience and shared understanding. It's a form of practical intelligence -
The Intolerable Acts, known as the Coercive Acts in Britain, were a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 to punish the American colony of Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party. -
The Boston Tea Party took place on December 16, 1773, not 1763, when a group of colonists disguised as Mohawk Americans, known as the Sons of Liberty, destroyed a large shipment of British tea by dumping it into Boston Harbor. -
The Olive Branch Petition was a final appeal from the Second Continental Congress to King George III in July 1775, attempting to avoid the American Revolutionary War by affirming loyalty to the crown and requesting a reconciliation for past grievances. -
The Battle of Lexington and Concord, occurring on April 19, 1775, were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War, where colonial militia clashed with British regulars. Fueled by colonial resistance to British rule and a widespread alarm system (including Paul Revere's ride) -
The Second Continental Congress was a governing body of the 13 American colonies that met from May 1775 to March 1781, serving as a de facto government during the American Revolutionary War. Key actions included appointing George -
The Articles of Confederation was the United States' first constitution, established between 1781 and 1789, creating a weak central government with most power residing in the individual states. -
The Annapolis Convention was a meeting of commissioners from five states in September 1786, held to address the weaknesses of the Articles -
Shays' Rebellion was an armed uprising by Massachusetts farmers in 1786–1787, led by Revolutionary War veteran Daniel Shays, protesting high taxes, debt, and an unresponsive government under the Articles of Confederation -
The Constitutional Convention, or Philadelphia Convention, met in Philadelphia during the summer of 1787 to revise the Articles of Confederation but ultimately drafted an entirely new United States Constitution