The Revolution Within
The United States faced high levels of this economic problem after the war
What is Inflation?
This man anonymously authored “Common Sense”, which became a best-seller in the colonies and was instrumental in getting the people behind the cause of Independence
Who is Thomas Paine?
This future First Lady famously urged her husband John to "remember the ladies" in a 1776 letter while he attended the Continental Congress
Who is Abigail Adams?
This term means the legal prohibition of slavery, and was advanced by anti-slavery groups after the Revolution in particular
What is Abolition?
Established in 1607 by the Virginia Company of London, this settlement overcame disease and a devastating "Starving Time" to become the first permanent English colony in North America
What is Jamestown?
This term– meaning “the right to vote”-- was largely bound to white landowners after the Revolution but was hotly debated
What is Suffrage?
This man wrote “The Wealth of Nations”, which argued that free trade guided an economy more efficiently and fairly than government intervention
Who is Adam Smith?
To protest British taxes, colonial women bypassed English imports by creating their own textiles, launching this patriotic "movement."
What is the Homespun Movement?
This is the number of British colonies that would eventually form the United States that legally allowed slavery in 1776
What is Thirteen?
Signed off the coast of Massachusetts in 1620, this 200-word agreement among 41 male passengers established the first framework for self-government in the New World
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Members of this group of people largely escaped to Canada and England after the war, unable to continue residing in an independent United States
What are Loyalists?
King George hired these German mercenaries to fight the rebelling colonists after the Battles at Lexington and Concord
Who are Hessians?
This Revolutionary-era ideology tasked women with raising civic-minded sons to ensure the survival of the new American republic
What is Republican Motherhood?
This 1791 slave rebellion led by Toussaint L'Ouverture against French colonizers unsettled American slaveholders and led to stricter slave codes in many states
What is the Haitian Revolution?
This 1676 uprising in Virginia, led by a disgruntled planter against Governor William Berkeley, accelerated the colony's shift from indentured servants to enslaved African labor.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
This order issued by King George III right after the French and Indian War– which prevented American colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains– was largely invalidated by the Americans after victory in the American War for Independence
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
Defying a direct order from King Louis XVI, this 19-year-old French nobleman sailed to America in 1777, became a major general under George Washington, and helped secure victory at Yorktown.
Who is Marquis de Lafayette?
These civilians, mostly women and children, marched behind the Continental Army to provide vital services like cooking, nursing, and sewing
What are Camp Followers?
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What is Lord Dunmore's Proclamation?
This British economic policy treated the 13 colonies as a source of raw materials and a market for finished goods, dictating that trade should always benefit the mother country.
What is Mercantilism?
Most states set up this type of legislature after the war, literally meaning “two houses”
What is Bicameral?
This Prussian military officer trained the Continental Army at Valley Forge, helping transform inexperienced soldiers into a more disciplined fighting force.
Who is Baron von Stueben?
This New Jersey woman disguised herself as a man and served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, later receiving a military pension for her service
Who is Deborah Sampson
Prior to and during the American Revolution, enslaved African Americans used the rhetoric of liberty to submit these formal, legal documents to colonial courts and legislatures demanding their emancipation.
What are Freedom Petitions?
Massachusetts Governor John Winthrop labeled this religious dissenter an "American Jezebel" before putting her on trial for heresy and banishing her from the colony in 1638
Who is Anne Hutchinson?