Key Terms

British soldiers fired into a protesting mob; symbolizes the tension between the colonists and the British.

• Boston Massacre of 1770

• The Stamp Act of 1765

• The Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775

• The Tea Act of 1773

written and adopted by the Fifth Virginia Convention in 1776, declared that men have inherent rights, among these is the right to reject unjust or inadequate governments

• Magna Carta

• Virginia Declaration of Rights

• Declaration of Independence

• Bill of Rights

Required colonists to provide room and board to British soldiers.

• Stamp Act of 1765

• Tea Act of 1773

• Quartering Act of 1765

• Navigation Acts of 1651

A tax enacted on all British colonies by Parliament on sugar, textiles, coffee, wine, and indigo.

• Stamp Act of 1765

• Sugar Act of 1764

• Tea Act of 1773

• Navigation Acts of 1651

The debate over its creation (1791) led to the emergence of the first US political parties.

• The Constitution

• The Bill of Rights

• The Declaration of Independence

• Bank of The United States

served in many capacities: as a member of the First and Second Continental Congress; as Commander-in-Chief of the colonial armies during the American Revolution; as president of the Constitutional Convention; as the first president of the United States.

• Thomas Jefferson

• Benjamin Franklin

• George Washington

• John Adams

Issued in 1793; declared that the US would not interfere/involve itself in European conflicts.

• Declaration of Independence

• Proclamation of Neutrality

• Treaty of Paris

• Monroe Doctrine

16th President of the United states. He was president during the Civil War and issued the Emancipation Proclamation.

• Abraham Lincoln

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

• James Madison

Fought in New York, the American victory is often called the turning point of the Revolutionary War. 1777

• Battle of Bunker Hill

• Battle of Saratoga

• Siege of Yorktown

• Battle of Trenton

An underground resistance organization that was formed in 1765 in opposition to the Stamp Act. In the decade leading up to the start of the Revolution, the group continued to resist all other forms of British taxation including orchestrating the Boston Tea Party in 1773 to protest the Tea Act.

• The Loyalists

• The Whigs

• Sons of Liberty

• The Patriots