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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 -
laws that were passed by the British Parliament in 1765 and 1774 that required American colonists to provide housing for British soldiers -
The first direct tax imposed by the British Parliament on the American colonies. It required printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper from London, which had a stamp. -
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 -
Laws that imposed indirect taxes on imported goods like glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea to raise revenue/money and assert British authority over the American colonies -
British soldiers opened fire and killed 5 unarmed Americans in a street fight. Paul Revere made a drawing about it he called it the "Bloody Massacre". -
dumping 342 chests of British tea into the harbor to protest "taxation without representation" and the Tea Act. -
Second Continental Congress was like the first actual government for the 13 colonies. -
a series of five punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 -
the final formal attempt by the Second Continental Congress to avoid a full-scale war with Great Britain -
the Battles of Lexington and Concord marked the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
the founding document of the United States, formally adopted by the Second Continental Congress -
the "viral" catalyst of the American Revolution -
The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union served as the first constitution of the United States -
The Annapolis Convention was a pivotal meeting,where delegates from five U.S. states gathered to discuss commercial problems under the weak Articles of Confederation. -
an armed uprising in western Massachusetts led by Revolutionary War veteran Daniel Shays. -
The Constitutional Convention replaced the weak Articles of Confederation with a robust federal framework