Cause for Revolution
A group of Bostonians disguised as Native Americans boarded a British ship and threw 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This battle took place when British troops attacked colonists fortified on a hill and took their position. Although they won, British troops suffered over a thousand casualties.
What is Bunker Hill?
The belief in human rights and freedom.
What is liberalism?
The unanimous decision of the thirteen colonies to become independent from British rule.
What is the Deceleration of Independence?
What are Democratic-Republicans?
In March 1770, a group of colonists harassed British guards near a customs house. The guards fired into the crowd, killing five.
What is the Boston Massacre?
Written in Paris, this ended the revolutionary war.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
The idea of trusting human reason to understand the natural world and to respond to the many problems of life and society.
What is rationalism?
This document aimed to follow enlightenment ideas and create a new form of government that protected against tyranny and had a good balance of federal and state power.
What is the Constitution?
This treaty caused Britain to leave any posts they still had on the Western Frontier
What is the Jay Treaty?
Enacted by Parliament in 1765, this required that revenue stamps be placed on most printed paper in the colonies, including all legal documents, newspapers, pamphlets, and advertisements.
What is the Stamp Act?
This was the first battle of the Revolutionary War where a large number of British troops were sent to seize military supplies in a town outside of Boston.
What is Lexington and Concord?
This was the concept of an agreement among people to form a government to promote liberty and equality.
What is Social Contract
This document drafted the first constitution for the United States as a nation and planned to protect individual states.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This person was the biggest advocate for the United States being neutral in foreign affairs.
Who is George Washington?
This required the colonists to provide food and living quarters for British soldiers stationed in the colonies.
What is the Quartering Act?
This was the last major battle of the Revolutionary War which was fought on the shores of Chesapeake Bay. Washington’s army forced the surrender of a large British army commanded by General Charles Cornwallis.
What is Yorktown?
This group of people believed in God, but in one who had established natural laws in creating the universe and then rarely or never intervened directly in human affairs.
What are Deists?
This document comprises the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This treaty opened trade to Americans on the lower Mississippi and in New Orleans. The border of Florida was also decided to be the 31st parallel.
What is the Pinckney Treaty?
This was a set of four Acts, directed mainly at punishing the people of Boston and Massachusetts and bringing them under control.
What are the Coercive Acts?
This battle was fought in upstate New York in 1770 where British troops coming from Canada were forced to surrender.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
Thomas Pane wrote this pamphlet in 1776 in order to argue for American Independence.
What is Common Sense?
An series of 85 essays that argued for every major provision in the Constitution.
What are The Federalist Papers?
This person was the second president of the United States.
Who is John Addams?