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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 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. -
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