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Sugar Act
The Sugar Act taxed sugar and other imported goods, wine, coffee etc. -
Stamp Act
Imposed a tax on all papers and official documents in the American colonies. -
Townshend Acts
The Townshend Acts were passed by the British Parliament in 1767, that taxed goods imported to the American colonies. -
Boston Massacre
A group of nine British soldiers shot five people out of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing them verbally and throwing things at them. -
Boston Tea Party
Was an American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts. They threw the tea off of the ship. -
Intolerable Acts
A series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. -
First Continental Congress
Was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States. -
Battle of Lexington and Concord
Was the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
Olive Branch Petition
A letter sent to the King as a last attempt to prevent formal war from being declared. -
Crossing Delaware
Washington led his army on the road to Trenton by crossing Delaware river. It was there that he secured the Continental Army's first major military victory of the war. -
Thomas Paine's Common Sense
A book by Thomas Paine, including 31 articles, posits that popular political revolution is permissible when a government does not safeguard the natural rights of its people. -
Declaration of Independence
The official document that announced that America was a free country. -
Battle of Saratoga
The Battles of Saratoga marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign, giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War. -
Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union was an agreement among the 13 Colonies of the United States of America that served as its first frame of government. -
Battle of Valley Forge
Valley Forge functioned as the third of eight winter encampments for the Continental Army's main body, commanded by General George Washington, during the American Revolutionary War. -
Battle of Yorktown
Franco-American land and sea campaign that entrapped a major British army on a peninsula at Yorktown, Virginia, and forced its surrender. -
Three Fifths Compromise
Agreement that each slave counted as three-fifths of a person in determining representation in the House for representation and taxation purposes. -
The Great Compromise
Was an agreement reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation each state would have under the United States Constitution. -
Anti-Ferderalists
Opponents of the American Constitution at the time when the states were contemplating its adoption. -
Bill of Rights
The United States Bill of Rights comprises the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.