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British Policy of Salutary Neglect
enforcement of strict regulations ,particularly trade laws ,imposed on the american colonies late in the seventeenth centuries -
navigation acts/mercantilism
used the american colonies to bolster British state power and finances .prevented the colonies from shipping any goods anywhere without first stopping in English . -
French and Indian war
North American conflict in a large imperial war between great Britain and France .It provided Britain enormous territorial gains in North America . -
proclamation of 1763
a British produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the eastern continental divide .The proclamation line prohibited Anglo-american colonist from settling on land . -
stamp act
imposed a tax on all papers and official documents in the american colonies .It raised money to pay for the army through a tax on all legal and official papers . -
Quartering Act
this act allowed for the troops stay in private houses and facilities .it was passed after the Boston tea party . -
Townsend act
series of measures, passed by the British Parliament in 1767 that taxed goods imported to the American colonies.most of the american who had representation in parliament saw it as abuse -
Boston Massacre
it was a street fight between a "patriot "mob,throwing snowballs ,stones,sticks,and a squad of British soldiers . -
tea act/Boston tea party
it was a political protest that was about the tax on Boston tea .they dumped 342 chests of tea in the harbor -
intolerable act
it was a law past after the Boston tea party .The laws aimed to punish Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest of the Tea Act -
1st continental congress
Congress issued a Declaration of Rights, affirming its loyalty to the British Crown but disputing the British Parliament's right to tax it without representation in the parliament. -
Lexington and concord
marked the start of the American War of Independence.The British marched into Lexington and Concord intending to suppress the possibility of rebellion by seizing weapons from the colonists. -
common sense
made a clear case for independence and directly attacked the political, economic, and ideological obstacles to achieving it -
2nd continental congress
a late-18th-century meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that united in support of the American Revolutionary War.