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Glorious Revolution (CAUSE)
The Glorious Revolution was the overthrow of King James II of England by a union of English Parliamentarians. It was a cause of the American Revolution -
French and Indian War
A war fought primarily between the colonies of British America and New France. -
The Stamp Act
The Stamp Act imposed a direct tax by the British Parliament specifically on the colonies of British America, and it required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp. These printed materials were legal documents, magazines, newspapers and many other types of paper used throughout the colonies. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773. Disguised as American Indians, the demonstrators destroyed an entire shipment of tea, which had been sent by the East India Company, in defiance of the Tea Act of May 10, 1773. They boarded the ships and threw the chests of tea into Boston Harbor, ruining the tea. -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from twelve colonies (Georgia was not present) that met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution. It was called in response to the passage of the Intolerable Acts by the British Parliament. The Intolerable Acts had punished Boston for the Boston Tea Party. -
Lexington and Concorde
Lexington and Concorde were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. They were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge, near Boston. The battles marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in the mainland of British North America. -
Decleration of Independence
The Decleration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. Instead they formed a union that would become a new nation, the United States of America. -
The French support the Colonists
At first, France unofficialy supplied the colonies with arms and ammo. When the colonists showed France that they actually stood a chance of beating the British at the Battle of Saratoga, France gave the colonists official support. The reason why France supported the colonists was mainly to get back at Britain for the French and Indian Wars. -
Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation was an agreement among the 13 founding states that established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution. -
U.S. Constitution
The U.S. Constitution is the supreme law of the United States of America. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man (EFFECT)
The Declaration of the Rights of Man is a fundamental document of the French Revolution and in the history of human rights. It defines the individual and collective rights of all the estates of the realm as universal. It became the basis for a nation of free individuals protected equally by law. It's an effect of the American Revolution -
Latin American Wars of Independence (EFFECT)
The Latin American Wars of Independence were the revolutions that took place during the late 18th and early 19th centuries and resulted in the creation of a number of independent countries in Latin America. They were a result of the American Revolution -
Haitian Revolt (EFFECT)
The Haitian Revolt was a slave revolt in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, which culminated in the elimination of slavery there and the founding of the Republic of Haiti. It was a result of the American Revolution
