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British Policy of Salutary Neglect
"allowed North American colonies to be left largely on their own with little British interference".
This was important because when British government wasn't enforcing its laws in the colonies, the colonists became accustomed to governing themselves.
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Navigation Acts/Mercantilism
"A series of laws passed by the British Parliament that imposed restrictions on colonial trade".
All imports to America had to be either bought from Britain or resold by British merchants in Britain. This again, showing that America could practically run itself.
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French and Indian War
"pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French".
Disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war's expenses was the ultimate that led to the American Revolution.
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Proclamation of 1763
"British-produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide".
"British leaders feared that more fighting would take place on the frontier if colonists kept moving onto American Indian lands".
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Quartering Act
Great Britain housed its soldiers in American barracks and public houses.
"The colonists grew very tired of this and wanted to protest against this act".
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Stamp Act
It imposed a tax on all papers and official documents in the American colonies, though not in England.
The Stamp Act "extracted money from Americans without their consent, so both violated the principle of taxation without representation".
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Townshend Acts
Enforced taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea.
Colonists resisted to pay these which made Britain send troops to collect the taxes, further heightening the tensions.
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Boston Massacre
A street fight between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers.
"The Boston Massacre helped spark the colonists' desire for American independence".
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Tea Act / Boston Tea Party
The Tea Act "gave the East India Company exclusive rights to transport tea to the colonies".
The Boston Tea Party was a political "protest by the Sons of Liberty".
The Boston Tea Party was "the first major act of defiance to British rule over the colonists".
The Tea Act led directly to the Boston Tea Party.
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Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts were a series of laws from the British government "aimed to punish Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest of the Tea Act".
The Intolerable Acts "provided a motivation for the first meeting of the colonies, the First Continental Congress, and ultimately lead to the Revolutionary war".
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1st Continental Congress
1st Continental Congress was " a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States".
This event "provided leadership during the American Revolution and drafted the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation".
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Lexington and Concord
Lexington and Concord "were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War".
This event "persuaded many Americans to take up arms and support the cause of their independence".
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Common Sense
Common Sense was a "47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine, advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies".
The book "played a key role in rallying American support for independence".
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2nd Continental Congress
The 2nd Continental Congress was a "meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that united in support of the American Revolutionary War".
This event was important by "raising armies, directing strategy, appointing diplomats, and writing petitions such as the Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms and the Olive Branch Petition".
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