Ideas on Government
A monarchy that is limited by laws and a constitution. The government type of much of the world before the Revolutionary War.
Limited Monarchy
The event where colonists dumped tea into Boston Harbor
The first battle of the Revolutionary War
The Battle of Lexington & Concord
The author of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
The North, The Union
The group of philosophers who began to talk about democracy.
Enlightenment philosophers, philosophers during the Enlightenment
The two acts that resulted from colonists smuggling goods
Sugar & Stamp Acts
The major turning point for the Americans in the Revolutionary War
Battle of Saratoga
The date congress issues the Declaration of Independence
The major cause of the Civil War.
Slavery, Abolitionism
John Locke's idea on government that the government would abide by the rule of the people
The Social Contract
The war the British and French fought for control over North America.
7 years' War, French and Indian War
The commander of the Continental Army who was appointed by the Continental Congress
George Washington
The most impactful result of the Declaration of Independence
U.S. becomes its' own country
A decree freeing all enslaved people in the South.
The Emancipation Proclomation
John Locke's idea of what the people had the right to do if the government did not respect the people
Overthrow the government, rebel against the government, create a new government
No taxation without representation, the Intolerable Acts, dissolving the Massachusetts assembly, closing the port of Boston to shut down trade, dissolving the colonial courts and quartering troops in citizens’ homes.
The act requiring colonists to allow soldiers to stay in their home
The Quartering Act
The first person to sign the Declaration of Independence
John Hancock
The amendment that abolished slavery and involuntary servitude except as a punishment for a crime.
The 13th Amendment
To reestablish their rights, their rights were violated, they lost their rights
The two acts that make up the Intolerable Acts.
The Quebec and Coercive Acts
The treaty signed in 1783 that officially recognized American independence
Treaty of Paris
One of the people who revised the Declaration
John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston
The bloodiest single day battle in American History
The Battle of Antietam