Causes
A raid on three British ships in Boston Harbor in which Boston colonists, disguised as Mohawk Indians, threw several hundred chests of tea into the harbor as a protest against the British Tea Act.
What is the Boston Tea Party
An intellectual movement emphasizing reason, individualism, skepticism, and science.
What is the Enlightenment?
Economic effect of American Revolution.
Open new markets for America
America went into a depression
The Church of England turned into this
What is the Church of America?
Commander and chief of America's armed forces.
Who is George Washington?
A proclamation from the British government which forbid British colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains, in order to avoid conflict with the Native Americans.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
Fundamental, basic rights that all human beings are born with.
What is the right to life, liberty, and property?
Political effect of American Revolution.
What is America as an independent country?
Authors of the Federalist Papers.
Who are Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay?
30% of slaves escaped, migrated, or died during the war in this colony.
What is South Carolina?
A tax that the British Parliament placed on newspapers and official documents sold in the American Colonies.
What is the Stamp Act.
What is a state of nature?
No government at all with no rules and complete freedom, but without any protection from each other.
Caused the government and church to be separated.
What is the separation of church and state?
The area of the country where slavery was outlawed for the first time due to the Articles of Confederation.
What is the Northwest Territory?
Officer William Prescott ordered his troops to do this at the Battle of Bunker Hill.
What is "Do not fire until you see the whites of their eyes?"
The refusal to buy or sell certain products or services.
What is boycott
What is the consent of governed?
If a government failed, then citizens would no longer agree to be governed and they would have the right to revolt.
Absolute ownership of a person, including the right to buy and sell.
What is chattel slavery?
The new written government of the United States.
The armed uprising caused by the taxes established by the Articles of Confederation.
What is the Shays Rebellion?
British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists who were teasing and taunting them. Five colonists were killed.
What is the Boston Massacre
When did the Enlightenment end?
Around 1789, about the same time the Constitution was born.
The idea that American women had to instill the idea of "civic virtue" in their children.
What is Republican motherhood?
The document that ended the Revolution.
What is the Treaty of Paris
The battle that was the turning point of the war.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?