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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. -
The French and Indian War started in 1754 because everyone wanted the same land in the Ohio River Valley. A young George Washington basically sparked the whole thing when his guys got into a messy fight with the French at the Battle of Jumonville Glen. It lasted until 1763 and ended with Britain winning most of the territory. -
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 of 1765 was basically Britain’s first attempt to tax the American colonists directly on their everyday business rather than just on imported goods. -
British laws passed in 1765 and 1774 that forced American colonies to provide housing and supplies for British soldiers -
The Townshend Acts were a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1767 and 1768 to tax the American colonies and reassert British authority -
The Boston Massacre occurred when British soldiers fired into a crowd of American colonists on King Street in Boston -
A political protest that took place on December 16, 1773, at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts -
A series of five punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 -
The Olive Branch Petition was a final, desperate attempt by the Second Continental Congress to avoid a full-scale war with Great Britain -
The opening armed engagement of the American Revolutionary War was fought in Massachusetts. " The shot heard around the world". -
The convention of delegates from the 13 American colonies that functioned as the de facto national government during the American Revolutionary War -
The American Revolution started on April 19, 1775, with the Battles of Lexington and Concord. For years, the colonists were heated over British taxes and felt it was messed up to pay when they had no voice in the government, calling it taxation without representation. Once the first shots were fired known as the shot heard round the world the colonies officially went to war, picked George Washington to lead them, and signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776. -
"Common Sense" is a book written by Thomas Paine and was very popular during the Enlightenment and I learned about it on Hamilton. -
Adopted on July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was the official announcement that the 13 American colonies were breaking away from British rule. -
The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union served as the first constitution of the United States, in effect from 1781 to 1789 -
A pivotal political meeting held from September 11 to 14, 1786, at Mann’s Tavern in Annapolis, Maryland. -
An armed uprising in western Massachusetts led by Revolutionary War veteran Daniel Shays. -
Held in Philadelphia’s Independence Hall from May 25 to September 17, 1787