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The 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.
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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. -
It was a British tax on the American colonies requiring 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. -
Two British parliamentary acts in the 1760s and 1770s that required American colonies to provide housing, food, and other supplies for British soldiers stationed there, -
The Townshend Acts, passed in 1767 by the British Parliament, imposed import duties on goods like glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea in the American colonies. They established a Board of Customs Commissioners and vice-admiralty courts to raise revenue and assert British authority. The acts were repealed in 1770.
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It was a deadly confrontation between British soldiers and American colonists that occurred on March 5, 1770, in Boston, Massachusetts. -
It was a political protest that took place on December 16, 1773, in Boston, Massachusetts, where American colonists, disguised as Mohawk Indians, dumped 342 chests of tea from three British ships into the harbor. -
It was a series of four punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 to punish the colony of Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party, but they instead unified the colonies in opposition to British rule. -
Was a document by the Second Continental Congress that expressed loyalty to King George III and asked for reconciliation with Great Britain, but it was rejected by the King, who declared the colonies to be in open rebellion. -
It was a governing body of the Thirteen Colonies that convened in 1775, during the American Revolution, serving as the de facto government of the nascent United States. -
Was the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War, marking the beginning of the armed conflict. Following the British attempt to seize colonial military stores, colonial militias engaged British forces in Lexington and Concord, culminating in a running gun battle as the British retreated to Boston. -
Is sound, practical judgment or basic, universally shared knowledge and good sense that helps individuals make rational decisions and solve everyday problems based on simple perceptions of situations and facts, rather than complex reasoning. -
Is the formal statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, that announced the separation of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain, proclaiming them to be a new, independent nation with the right to govern themselves. -
A violent armed uprising by debt-ridden farmers, including Revolutionary War veterans, in Massachusetts, led by Daniel Shays.
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Took place in the summer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where 55 delegates from 12 states gathered to revise the Articles of Confederation. -
A meeting in Annapolis, Maryland, intended to discuss interstate trade problems under the Articles of Confederation. -
The first constitution of the United States, establishing a weak central government with power concentrated in the states.