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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. -
a tax, requiring a tax stamp on legal documents, newspapers, playing cards, and other paper goods -
one of two laws passed that required American colonists to provide housing, food, and supplies for British soldiers -
series of parliamentary acts, imposing taxes and duties on goods like glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea to pay for colonial administration and recoup war debt -
a deadly confrontation in Boston, where British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists, killing five people and wounding others -
a political protest that in Boston,where American patriots,dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor -
a series laws passed to punish Massachusetts and Boston for the Boston Tea Party -
a final plea to King George III i seeking reconciliation with Great Britain and an end to the growing conflict -
the first military conflict of the American Revolutionary War -
a 47-page pamphlet that argued passionately and plainly for the American colonies' independence from Great Britain -
the founding document by which the 13 American colonies declared their separation from Great Britain -
the government of the American colonies during the American Revolution -
the United States' first constitution -
an uprising by indebted farmers in western Massachusetts -
a failed attempt to address interstate trade issues under the Articles of Confederation -
a meeting of delegates in Philadelphia to address the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation