Unit 2 American Revolution

North American conflict that was a part of a worldwide struggle between France and Britain and ended with the defeat of France and the transfer of French Canada to Britain.

• Boston Massacre

• French and Indian War

• Lexington and Concord

• Townshend Act

The treaty that ended the Revolutionary War, confirming the independence of the United States and setting the boundaries of the new nation.

• Treaty of Paris 1783

• Social Contract

• Treaty of Tordesillas

• Treaty of Ghent

An order in which Britain prohibited its American colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.

• Treaty of Paris 1763

• Stamp Act

• Proclamation of 1763

• Intolerable Acts

A 1765 law in which Parliament established the first direct taxation of goods and services within the British colonies in North America by acquiring colonist to use special stamped paper for certain documents.

• Intolerable Act

• Townshend Act

• Navigation Act

• Stamp Act

A series of laws enacted by Parliament in 1774 to punish Massachusetts colonist for the Boston Tea Party.

• Stamp Act

• Boston Massacre

• Intolerable Acts

• Navigation Acts

A radical political organization of men that formed in 1765 after the passage of the Stamp Act. Wanted colonial independence from England. Organized boycotts and protest.

• Sons of Liberty

• Men of Liberty

• Committee of Correspondence

• Committee of Five

A group set up by American colonists to exchange information about British threats to their liberties.

• Committee of Five

• Virginia House of Burgesses

• Committees of Correspondence

• Stamp Act

A pamphlet by Thomas, Paine, published in 1776, that called for separation of the colonies from Britain.

• Declaration of Independence

• Proclamation of 1763

• Boston Tea Party

• Common Sense

John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert Livingston and Roger Sherman made up this group that was given the task of writing a document to list the reasons for colonial independence. (Declaration of Independence).

• Sons of Liberty

• The Fab Five

• Committee of Five

• Daughters of Liberty

Prussian born American Revolutionary military leader who

trained the previously undisciplined troops of the Continental Army.

• Baron von Steuben

• Lord Cornwallis

• Ben Franklin

• John Adams