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A 1765 British tax on the American colonies required a tax stamp on legal documents, newspapers, playing cards, and other paper goods to help pay for British troops after the French and Indian War. -
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A series of British laws imposed new taxes on goods such as glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea imported to the American colonies, aimed at raising revenue to fund colonial administration and assert parliamentary authority. -
A series of British laws in the 1760s and 1770s that required colonial governments to provide housing, food, and supplies for British troops stationed in the American colonies, often in public houses, inns, or other available buildings -
On March 5, 1770, seven British soldiers fired into a crowd of volatile Bostonians, killing five, wounding another six, and angering an entire colony. Apr 4, 2024 -
The founding document of the United States, adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, declared the separation of the Thirteen Colonies from Great Britain. -
A final plea from the Second Continental Congress to King George III in July 1775, seeking to avoid war and achieve reconciliation with Great Britain. -
A political protest on December 16, 1773, in which American colonists, as the Sons of Liberty, dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor. -
A series of four British parliamentary laws was passed in 1774 to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party and assert greater control over the colonies. -
Refers to the history surrounding Thomas Paine's 1776 pamphlet, Common Sense, a foundational text for the American Revolution that advocated for independence from British rule using straightforward language accessible to ordinary people. -
Marked the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
The de facto government of the American colonies during the American Revolution. -
The United States' first constitution, established between 1781 and 1789. -
A 1786 meeting of delegates from five states highlighted the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation and recommended a broader convention to address the nation's commercial and governmental issues. -
An uprising by western Massachusetts farmers in 1786-1787, led by Daniel Shays, protesting crushing debt, high taxes, and lack of relief from the state legislature. -
A meeting of delegates in Philadelphia from May to September 1787, initially to revise the weak Articles of Confederation, but instead led to the drafting of the U.S. Constitution