Significant Figures
A lawyer, diplomat and leader of the revolutionary cause, this founding father’s ideas of liberty changed American thinking and went on to be president.
Who was John Adams?
What is Suffrage?
The advocation for the emancipation of all slaves
What was abolition?
A proponent of the separation of church and state and abolitionist, this founding father wrote the declaration of independence.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
Unrestricted trade free from government tariffs, duties, and quotas
What is Free Trade?
After the revolution, these people loyal to the British were either banished or moved willingly.
What were loyalists?
The wife of a certain John, she was the most prominent figure of women' s rights back in the day.
Who was Abigail Adams?
A Government where power rests with the people who elect representatives
What is Republic?
This group of people were further subjugated and pushed westwards after many fought for both sides during the revolution.
What are native Americans?
This was some Native guy who wanted a confederacy of all native peoples.
Who was Joseph Brant?
Legal appeals mainly for enslaved people sent to colonial courts in the late 18th and early 19th centuries
What is freedom petitions?
This idea was when women were educated for the sake of the furthered pursuit of teaching their sons.
What was republican motherhood?