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Acts of Parliament intended to promote the self-sufficiency of the British Empire by restricting colonial trade to England and decreasing dependence on foreign imported goods. -
required the colonists to pay a tax, represented by a stamp, on various forms of papers, documents, and playing cards. -
British sent soldiers who were to be “quartered” in housing provided by the colonists. -
Initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. -
British soldiers shot several of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing them verbally and throwing various projectiles -
The French and Indian War was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years’ War. -
On December 16, 1773 protestors dumped tea into Boston Harbor -
Response to the Boston Tea Party the British sent more troops to Boston.
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a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. -
A meeting of delegates of 12 of the Thirteen Colonies held from September 5 to October 26, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia at the beginning of the American Revolution. -
The Thirteen Colonies that united in support of the American Revolution and the Revolutionary War, which established American independence from the British Empire. -
the first major military campaign of the American Revolutionary War, resulting in an American victory and outpouring of militia support for the anti-British cause -
Thomas Paine’s Common Sense is published -
Formally titled The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America in both the engrossed version and the original printing, is the founding document of the United States -
An agreement among the 13 states of the United States, formerly the Thirteen Colonies, that served as the nation's first frame of government
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An armed uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester in response to a debt crisis among the citizenry and in opposition to the state government's increased efforts to collect taxes on both individuals and their trades
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Address the problems of the weak central government that existed under the Articles of Confederation.