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The Sugar Act taxed sugar and other imported goods, wine, coffee etc. -
Imposed a tax on all papers and official documents in the American colonies. -
The Townshend Acts were passed by the British Parliament in 1767, that taxed goods imported to the American colonies. -
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. -
Was an American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts. They threw the tea off of the ship. -
A series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. -
Was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States. -
Was the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
A letter sent to the King as a last attempt to prevent formal war from being declared. -
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. -
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. -
The official document that announced that America was a free country. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
Franco-American land and sea campaign that entrapped a major British army on a peninsula at Yorktown, Virginia, and forced its surrender. -
Agreement that each slave counted as three-fifths of a person in determining representation in the House for representation and taxation purposes. -
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. -
Opponents of the American Constitution at the time when the states were contemplating its adoption. -
The United States Bill of Rights comprises the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.