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hands off approach by Great Britain; British policy of loosely enforcing laws and regulations in the American colonies, allowing them to govern themselves. -
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, England's economic policy toward the 13 colonies was to treat the colonies as a market for English goods, and wanted to seek money and natural resources from them. -
The Quartering Act was a British law requiring American colonists to house and supply British troops -
The first tax imposed by the British Parliament on the colonies. Happened on March 22, 1765, and stayed until November 1, 1765, it said that any printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper from London. -
In 1767, the British Parliament passed the Townshend Acts to tax the American colonies on imported goods like tea, glass, lead, and paper. These laws were meant to pay off British war debts and assert control, but they mostly just made the colonists furious about "taxation without representation," leading to major boycotts and the Boston Massacre. -
On March 5, 1770, the Boston Massacre occurred when British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists on King Street, killing five people -
A group of American colonists dumped 342 chests of British East India Company Tea into Boston Harbor -
A series of punitive laws was passed by the British Parliament in 1774, designed to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party. These acts closed Boston Harbor, restricted town meetings, and suspended the Massachusetts charter -
It was a final attempt to avoid full-scale war with Great Britain -
The Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, was the start of the American Revolutionary War. British troops, wanting to seize colonial supplies and arrest leaders. -
The Second Continental Congress (1775–1781) was the de facto national government that managed the American Revolutionary War -
Common sense is the basic, practical judgment and understanding most people share, enabling reasonable behavior and decisions in everyday situations -
The Declaration of Independence announces the American colonies' separation from Britain, asserting fundamental rights to "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness -
The Articles of Confederation served as the first constitution of the United States. -
The Annapolis Convention in September 1786 was a small meeting of delegates from five states called to address trade issues under the weak Articles of Confederation -
Shays' Rebellion was an armed uprising in Massachusetts during 1786 and 1787. It happened because of debt collection practices and economic hardship. -
The Constitutional Convention was the historic 1787 gathering in Philadelphia that created the U.S. Constitution