Causes of the American Revolution
This war ended in 1763 and left Britain deeply in debt.
What is the French and Indian War?
Protest in which colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Commander of the Continental Army during the Revolution.
Who is George Washington?
America’s first system of government was under...
What are the Articles of Confederation?
First ten amendments added to protect individual freedoms.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This British policy banned colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
Event where British soldiers fired on colonists, killing five, and fueling Patriot propaganda.
What is the Boston Massacre?
Colonial soldiers who could be ready to fight at a minute’s notice.
Who are Minutemen?
Major weakness of America's first government.
What is the inability to collect taxes?
What is needing all states to agree to make important decisions?
Branch of government that makes laws.
What is the Legislative Branch?
This phrase summed up colonial anger over British taxes.
What is “No taxation without representation”?
Patriot leader famous for saying, “Give me liberty, or give me death!”
Who is Patrick Henry?
Enlightenment thinker whose ideas on natural rights inspired Jefferson.
Who is John Locke?
Rebellion, led by a former American solider, that showed the weakness of America's first government.
What is Shays’ Rebellion?
U.S. President who set many precedents for future leaders.
Who is George Washington?
British law that taxed paper goods such as newspapers and legal documents.
What is the Stamp Act?
First battles of the American Revolution fought in 1775.
What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
Treaty that officially ended the Revolutionary War in 1783.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
Meeting in 1787 where leaders wrote a new Constitution.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
Rebellion that tested the new federal government’s ability to enforce laws under George Washington's presidency.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
Colonists that stayed loyal to Britain.
What are loyalists?
According to the Declaration, governments get their power from this source.
What is the consent of the governed?/the people?
Important battle that concluded the American Revolution.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
Compromise that counted enslaved people as three-fifths of a person for representation.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
In his Farewell Address, Washington warned against these two dangers.
Political parties and permanent foreign alliances.