Acts
This Act Prohibited the Colonies from issuing paper money and also required that colonists pay off any debt with gold or silver only.
Currency Act of 1764 (Pg - 69)
Who was known as the "indispensable man"
George Washington
This man rode with William Dawes by different routes to rouse the minutemen, "to arms, to arms".
Paul Revere (pg 80)
In October of 1774, this body adopted a Declaration of Rights and Grievances.
The First Continental Congress (pg 77).
The Declaration consisted of 12 resolutions stating the rights of the Colonists in the empire. Among the resolutions was a statement of the rights of Americans to life, liberty & property, secured by the principals of the British Constitution.
In 1773, the British government gave the British East India Company permission to ship tea directly from Asia to the 13 colonies.
The Tea Act of 1773 (pg 74)
Though the price of tea was reduced for the 13 colonies - it left in place a tax on the tea.
This statesman was appointed at the end of the Revolution to spearhead negotiations with England in Paris.
Benjamin Franklin.
Ready to go at a moments notice, eight of these men gave their lives on the Lexington town common.
The Minutemen (pg 79-80).
The people of Massachusetts established a revolutionary government and raised an army soldiers known as the minute men.
The overall molding of America's Revolution, from an ideological sense, can be traced to the theories of Thomas Hobbs, Baron Charles de Montesquieu and this man
John Locke (pg 78).
It was the power of the press that spread John Locke's ideas to the colonies through pamphlets and newspapers.
This Act placed taxes on coffee, indigo, molasses and sugar.
The Sugar Act of 1764 (pg 69).
This American military officer intrigued to turn West Point over to British General Henry Clinton.
Benedict Arnold (pg 90).
This British General sent 1000 soldiers from Boston to march up the road via Lexington and Concord.
General Thomas Gage (pg 80).
He was Commander of the British garrison in Boston when he learned of a large store of munitions at Concord. He issued orders to arrest Samuel Adams and John Hancock as well as capture the cannons from the colonists.
No act of Congress was more symbolic of how far the the colonies had come toward independence that this Plan
The Galloway Plan (pg 77)
Proposed by Congress, the Plan proposed the establishment of a federal union for the colonies in America, headed by a President General.
In an attempt to shift the financial burdens of overtaxed landowners in England, this Act placed a tax on virtually every paper transaction - from marriage licences to newspapers to playing cards.
The Stamp Act of 1765 (pg 70)
A New Jersey Cleric who stood with frontiersman in taking up arms against England is noted as saying "there is not a single instance in history in which civil liberty was lost, and religious liberty preserved entire".
John Witherspoon (pg 75).
in spite of some recent scholarship, nearly universal ownership of these allowed the colonists to ready themselves on the eve of war.
Firearms (pg 79)
This man, viewed as the most pious of the revolutionaries claimed that the Revolution "connected, in one indissoluble bond, the principals of civil government, with the principals of Christianity".
John Adams (pg 78)
In response to the Tea Party the King singled out Boston and issued this Act which was meant to quell any future uprisings among the colonists.
The Intolerable or Coercive Act of 1774 (pg 75)
Among other things, the Act: closed Boston harbor until the tea was paid for; Annulled the charter of Massachusetts; made homeowners provide quarter to British soldiers.
The Stamp Act set off a firestorm among the colonists with Virginia again leading the way in resistance with this man as the chief spokesman in the House of Burgesses.
Patrick Henry (pg 71)
This Prussian Captain receiving an informal promotion from Benjamin Franklin to General drilled the troops at Valley Forge.
Baron Von Steuben (84)
This failed businessman became the galvanized voice of the Revolution through his famous work, "Common Sense"
Thomas Paine (pg 87)