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British Policy of Salutary Neglect
- to relax the enforcement of strict regulations, particularly trade laws, imposed on the American colonies
*it enabled the colonies to operate independently of Britain, both economically and politically - it would prevent American colonies becoming independent from the British and keep them indpendent.
- to relax the enforcement of strict regulations, particularly trade laws, imposed on the American colonies
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Navigation Acts/ Mercantilism
- British economic policy was based on mercantilism, which used the American colonies to aid British state power and finance. *The Navigation Acts were laws passed by the British Parliament that imposed restrictions on colonial trade.
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French and Indian war
- Was between the French and Great Britain, Known as the 7 year war
- The American Indians were fighting to maintain control of their land and their cultural future.
- The French and Great Britain were fight for the Upper Ohio Valley.
- Paying the war's expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution.
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Proclamation of 1763
*Proclamation Line prohibited Anglo-American colonists from settling on lands acquired from the French following
* While Britain intended for the boundary line to alleviate tensions between Anglo settlers and indigenous peoples, eager colonists largely ignored the proclamation- This proclamation created a hatred to Great Britain by colonist
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Quartering Act
*Requiring colonial authorities to provide food, drink, quarters, fuel, and transportation to British forces stationed in their towns or villages.
*Prohibited British soldiers from being quartered in private homes- This law that allowed soldiers into homes and had food and everything else they pleased was not payed for by the soldiers but the colonist
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Stamp Act
*It imposed a tax on all papers and official documents in the American colonies, though not in England.
*It taxed newspapers, almanacs, pamphlets, broadsides, legal documents, dice, and playing cards. *The Act resulted in violent protests in America and the colonists argued that there should be "No Taxation without Representation" -
Townshend Acts
*Initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea.
*It taxed goods imported to the American colonies- American colonist saw this as an abuse of power from Britain.
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Boston Massacre
*It began as a street brawl between American colonists and a British soldier, but quickly escalated.
*It ended without serious bloodshed but helped set the stage for the bloody incident yet to come. *It further outraged colonists already tired of British rule and unfair taxation and caused them to fight for independence. -
Tea act/ Boston tea party
*American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea
*The American colonists believed Britain was unfairly taxing them to pay for expenses incurred during the French and Indian War. *The Boston Tea Party was ultimately leading to the start of the American Revolution. -
Intolerable Acts
- The Intolerable Acts were meant to force the rebellious colonies back into place. *The Intolerable Acts by the colonists included a new Quartering Act that provided arrangements for housing British troops in American dwellings.
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1st Continental Congress
*Delegates from twelve of Britain's thirteen American colonies met to discuss America's future under growing British aggression.
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2nd Continental Congress
*The Second Continental Congress was a late-18th-century meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that united in support of the American Revolutionary War.
*They established a Continental army and elected George Washington as Commander-in-Chief, but the delegates also drafted the Olive Branch Petition and sent it to King George III in hopes of reaching a peaceful resolution. *The thirteen colonies met in Philadelphia to plot the course of war—and soon, independence. -
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Common Sense
*Common Sense is a 47-page pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies.
*Paine's arguments were straightforward. He argued for two main points independence from England and the creation of a democratic republic.- Common Sense compelled the American people because it resonated with their firm belief in liberty and determined opposition to injustice.
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Lexington and concord
*Was the first military clashes of the American Revolutionary War
*The Massachusetts colonial assembly responded to these provocations by directing townships to ready their militias. War was coming, and Boston’s patriots were preparing for it. *The British soldiers and rebel militiamen raced to Lexington during the night; they confronted each other at Lexington Green