American Revolution/Constiution

After the results of this conflict, the English Empire imposed taxes on the colonies to produce revenue.

• Revolutionary War

• French and Indian War

• War of 1812

• Shay's Rebellion

Tax on Sugar

• Stamp Act

• Townshend Act

• Tea Act

• Sugar Act

Tax on paper/document

• Townshend Act

• Tea Act

• Stamp Act

• Sugar Act

Leader of the "Sons of Liberty"

• George Washington

• Thomas Paine

• Alexander Hamilton

• Samuel Adams

After the Boston Tea Party, King George III implemented the Coercive Acts, also known to the colonist as.....

• Townshend Acts

• Tea Act

• Stamp Act

• Intolerable Acts

Turning point of the Revolutionary War that resulted in a French/Colonist alliance.

• Battle of Yorktown

• Battle of Lexington

• Battle of Saratoga

• Battle of Concord

Ended the American Revolution

• Treaty of Paris 1783

• Philadelphia Convention 1787

• Declaration of Independence 1776

• Constitution Ratified 1787

Oppose Ratification of the Constitution

• Federalist

• Republicanism

• Anti-Federalist

• Checks and Balances

Means the government was created by the people in order to govern themselves

• Federalism

• Anti-Federalism

• Republicanism

• Popular Sovereignty

The first 10 amendments of the constitution

• Constitution

• Bill of Rights

• Republicanism

• Federalism