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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.
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The French and Indian War was the North American theater of the global Seven Years' War, in which Great Britain and its colonists defeated France and its Native allies for control of North America. Triggered by disputes over the Ohio River Valley, the British victory, resulted in France losing nearly all its North American territory.
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A British law to raise revenue from American colonies after the Seven Years' War.
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The first direct British tax on American colonists, requiring a royal stamp on all legal documents, newspapers, playing cards, and pamphlets.
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British parliamentary laws requiring American colonists to house and supply British troops.
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Imposed import duties on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea to raise revenue for governing the American colonies, pay colonial officials' salaries, and strengthen enforcement.
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The Boston Massacre was a deadly confrontation on March 5, 1770, when British soldiers fired into a heckling colonial crowd in Boston, killing five colonists, including Crispus Attucks, and fueling revolutionary sentiment against British rule and taxation.
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American colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians, organized by the Sons of Liberty, boarded three British ships in Boston Harbor and destroyed 342 chests of tea. -
A series of five punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 in response to the Boston Tea Party, designed to punish Massachusetts and restore British authority. -
A final attempt to avoid full-scale war with Great Britain. -
Served as the de facto national government during the American Revolution. -
Marked the start of the American War of Independence. -
Formally announced the 13 American colonies' break from Great Britain. -
Served as the first U.S. constitution, establishing a "league of friendship" among the 13 sovereign states to coordinate the Revolutionary War. -
Constructing uniform parameters to regulate trade between states during a time of political turbulence and economic strain. -
55 delegates from 12 states abandon the weak Articles of Confederation to draft the U.S. Constitution. -
An armed uprising by indebted farmers, led by Daniel Shays, in western Massachusetts protesting high taxes and foreclosures under the weak Articles of Confederation.