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The first targeted British tax on American colonists, making everyone purchase, affixed stamp on every paper goods, legal documents, newspapers, and playing cards to gain money defense costs are the Seven Years' war. -
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. -
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. -
"hands off approach by Great Britain; British policy of loosely enforcing laws and regulations in the American colonies, allowing them to govern themselves. -
The 18th-century laws had been passed by the British Parliament (notably in 1765 and 1774) requiring American colonists to provide food, shelter, and supplies for British troops stationed in the colonies. -
Multiple British laws passed by parliament in 1767-1768 that inflict duties on imported goods--glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea--to raise revenue, enforce customs laws, and pay colonial offices' salaries. -
A fatal riot on March 5th, 1770, where Britain soldiers in occupied Boston fired into a insulting, snowball-throwing crowd, it killed 5 colonists. -
The Boston Tea Party in December 16th, 1773) was a crucial political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, against the British Tea Act of 1773. -
A series of five, later four, of disciplinary laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 to punish the Massachusetts colony for the Boston Tea Party. -
A final attempt by American colonists to avoid war with Great Britain. -
Acted as the de facto national government of the American colonies during the Revolutionary War. -
The first battles of the American Revolutionary War, fought on April 19,1775, when British troops marched to seize colonial weapons in Concord but were met by armed colonial militiamen, making the first shots and a ongoing battle that began the fight for American independence. -
Shared, intuitive, and self-evident knowledge, often described as "sound judgement" regarding everyday life. -
Announced that the 13 American colonies regarded themselves as independent sovereign states, no longer under British rule. -
The first written constitution of the United States. -
A formed assembly of delegates or representatives tasked with drafting, revising, or amending a nation's a states constitution. -
An armed uprising in Massachusetts led by Revolutionary War veteran Daniel Shays. -
A meeting of 12 delegates from five states (NY,NJ,PA,DE,VA) in Annapolis, Maryland, intended to address trade barriers under the Articles of Confederation.