American Revolution

Causes

100

This nine-year conflict left Great Britain with a huge debt.

French and Indian War (1754-1763)

200

It required colonists to provide housing and supplies for British troops still remaining after the F/I War.

Quartering Act (1765)

300

The main reason the colonists protested the Stamp Act (1765)

They believed they had no representation in Parliament.

400

This was a meeting to which nine colonies sent delegates to coordinate protest efforts.

Stamp Act Congress (1765)

500

This was the British Crown's response to the increasingly violent protests in Boston.

Sent 4,000 troops to Boston.

Conflict

100

Westward colonial expansion helped to start it.

The French and Indian War

200

This was an armed conflict in 1770 that resulted from increased tensions in Boston.

The Boston Massacre

300

These acts caused the Boston Tea Party

Townshend Acts

400

These acts were meant to punish the colonists for the BTP.

Coercive (intolerable) Acts (1774)

500

Delegates at this meeting proposed a Boycott of all British imported goods

First Continental Congress (1774)

War

100

British troops were marching here to arrest suspected Patriots.

Lexington and Concord

200

Created the continental army, assumed responsibility for the war, declared independence.

Second Continental Congress

300

A huge turning point of the war in 1778.

France joins as American allies

400

Occurred over a span of 3 years and was the final conflict of the war.

Siege of Yorktown (1781-1783)

500

Officially recognized American Independence

Treaty of Paris (1783)

D.O.I

100

The Declaration of Independence was based on these kinds of ideas

Enlightenment ideas

200

The D.O.I states that it is the right of the people to do this.

Abolish government when it fails to protect their rights.

300

The D.O.I. states these ideas/concepts explicitly.

Limited Government, Democracy

400

These were the Enlightenment philosophies (thoughts) that were explained in the D.O.I

All men were created equal, had natural rights

500

This was how the D.O.I impacted the Revolutionary War

It allowed the United States to form alliances.

Government

100

These were liberties given to Englishmen in the Magna Carta, English Bill of Rights, and the British Government.

Right to a trial, freedom of the press, the right to not pay taxes unless it was to your elected representatives.

200

In the British Government, executive power belonged to this office.

Monarch (king)

300

Not formally written, this was based on a collection of laws and traditions that had accumulated over time.

British Constitution

400

These were the only people that the colonists believed could tax them

Their elected officials and assemblies

500

A government in which the people have a say by electing representatives (consenting) to carry out the functions of government.

Democracy