Important Acts
Stamp act
Direct tax on British printed materials
Inflation
General increase in prices and fall in the purchase of money
William Prescott
Colonel in the Revolutionary War
Albany conference
meeting of representatives from 7 colonies
Boston tea party
Dumped tea into the harbor in response to british taxes
Currency act
regulated paper money in the colonies
Minutemen
men ready at a minutes notice for battle
Alexander Hamilton
Founding Father
Voting amendments
gave rights to who can vote and what for
Boston massacure
Fight in a city street that lead to the start of the revolutionary war
Coercive act
punished Massachusetts after the Boston tea party
Guerrilla warfare
uses small groups of people to overcome a larger less-mobile military
John Paul Jones
First well known naval commander
Ideals of the Constitution
there was 6 main ideas for it
Valley forge
was a winter encampments for the continental army
Townshend acts
The British put new taxes and took away some freedoms
Emancipation
process of being let free of legal restrictions
Charles Townshend
British politition
Bill of rights
First ten amendments to the constitution
Battle of lexington
first military engagement of the revolutionary war
Sugar act
aimed at ending the smuggling trade of sugar and molasses
Federalism
system of government
George Grenville
Prime minister of Great Britain
Treaty of Paris
formally ended the revolutionary war
Battle of saratoga
fought for eighteen days, was a major turning point in the war