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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. -
that required American colonists to provide housing, food, and supplies for British soldiers. -
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. -
British parliamentary acts named after Charles Townshend, imposing taxes and duties on goods like glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea to pay for colonial administration and recoup war debt. -
In Boston, Massachusetts, where British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists, killing five people and wounding others. -
a political protest that took place on December 16, 1773, in Boston, Massachusetts -
a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 to punish the American colony of Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party. -
a final plea from the Second Continental Congress to King George III in July 1775, seeking to avoid war by affirming loyalty to the Crown and asking for a resolution to colonial grievances -
marked the start of the American Revolutionary War when colonial militia clashed with British troops attempting to seize military supplies. -
a governing body of the 13 American colonies that met from May 1775 to March 1781 -
but primarily to Thomas Paine's 1776 pamphlet advocating for American independence. However, the term can also refer to several proposed pieces of legislation -
The Declaration of Independence, formally The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America in the original printing, is the founding document of the United States. -
creating a weak central government with most power residing in the individual states. Lacking key functions like a power to tax or regulate commerce, and a separate executive or judicial branch. -
a meeting of delegates from only five states in Annapolis, Maryland, called to address interstate trade issues and the fundamental weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation. -
an armed uprising by farmers and veterans in western Massachusetts from 1786 to 1787, protesting high taxes and debt collection under the Articles of Confederation -
a 1787 meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where delegates drafted the U.S. Constitution to replace the weak Articles of Confederation