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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. -
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 Stamp Act was Britain's first direct tax on the American colonies. It requires stamps on all legal papers. -
The Quartering Act is a British parliamentary law that required American colonists to house and supply British troops. -
The Townshend Acts imposed duties on imported glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea to pay for the administration of the American colonies. -
Where British soldiers fired on a taunting, snowball-throwing crowd in Boston, killing five colonists. -
The Boston Tea Party was a decisive political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, against the British Tea Act, which destroyed 342 chests of tea -
Four to five punitive laws were passed by the British Parliament, intended to punish the Massachusetts colony for the Boston Tea Party and restore British authority. -
a formal appeal sent by the Second Continental Congress to King George III as a "last-ditch effort" to avoid full-scale war between the American colonies and Great Britain. -
British troops marching to seize colonial munitions in Massachusetts were met by militiamen, resulting in armed conflict and a chaotic retreat. -
The Declaration of Independence is a formal document in which the American colonies announced their separation from British rule and asserted their natural right to establish a self-governing nation. -
It was an influential 47-page pamphlet that argued for American independence from British rule. It became an immediate bestseller that shifted public opinion toward revolution. -
The Articles of Confederation were the first governing constitution of the United States. -
The convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that functioned as the de facto national government of the United States during the American Revolutionary War. -
The Annapolis Convention was a meeting of delegates from five states to discuss interstate trade. -
Shays' Rebellion was an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers and Revolutionary War veterans protesting debt and taxes. -
The Constitutional Convention was a 1787 meeting in Philadelphia where delegates drafted the U.S. Constitution to create a stronger federal government