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| 6633559962 | Seven Years' (French and Indian) War | fought between the colonies of British America and New France, with both sides supported by military units from their parent countries of Great Britain and France, as well as Native American allies |  | 0 |
| 6633559965 | Benjamin Franklin | One of the founding fathers, famous for presence in the American Enlightenment. earned the title of "The First American" for his early and indefeatable campaigning for colonial unity, initially as an author and spokesman in London for several colonies. |  | 1 |
| 6633559967 | Colonial Militias | Groups of able-bodied colonialist men without proper military training that banded together to revolt against British tyrannny. |  | 2 |
| 6633559968 | The Continental Army | formed by the Second Continental Congress after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War by the colonies, created to coordinate the military efforts of the Thirteen Colonies in their revolt against the rule of Great Britain. |  | 3 |
| 6633559970 | Thomas Paine's Common Sense | Published in 1776. Pamphlet that challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy. Used "Common Sense" and plain language to appeal to the average colonist. First work to ask for independence outright. |  | 4 |
| 6633559972 | Republican Motherhood | Predominant conception of women's roles before, during and after the American Revolution: the "Republican Mother" was considered a custodian of civic virtue responsible for upholding the morality of her husband and children. Though this idea emphasized the separation of women's and men's roles, it did weight heavily the influence of the mother on the family and advocated for this influence to be taken seriously. |  | 5 |
| 6633559977 | Constitutional Convention | Took place from May 25 to September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Although the Convention was intended to revise the Articles of Confederation, . . The result of the Convention was the creation of the United States Constitution, . |  | 6 |
| 6633559978 | Federalism | a system of government in which entities such as states or provinces share power with a national government. |  | 7 |
| 6633559979 | Separation of Powers | Inspired by Montesquieu in The Spirit of the Laws, the idea of a constitutional government with three separate branches of government. Each of the three branches would have defined abilities to check the powers of the other branches. |  | 8 |
| 6633559980 | The Federalist Papers | a collection of 85 articles and essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay promoting the ratification of the United States Constitution. |  | 9 |
| 6633559981 | Alexander Hamilton | Founder of the Federalist Party, Co-author of The Federalist Papers, First Secretary of the Treasury |  | 10 |
| 6633559982 | James Madison | Co-Author of the Federalist Papers, hailed as "the Father of the Constitution," Fourth President of the United States |  | 11 |
| 6633559984 | Democratic-Republican Party | formed by Thomas Jefferson and others who believed in an agrarian-based, decentralized,democratic government. The party was established to oppose the Federalists who had supported and pushed through the ratification of the US Constitution. |  | 12 |
| 6633559985 | National Identity | one's identity or sense of belonging to one state or to one nation. It is the sense of a nation as a cohesive whole, as represented by distinctive traditions, culture, language and politics. |  | 13 |
| 6633559986 | The Northwest Ordinance | created the Northwest Territory, the first organized territory of the United States, from lands beyond the Appalachian Mountains, between British North America and the Great Lakes to the north and the Ohio River to the south.established the precedent by which the Federal government would be sovereign and expand westward with the admission of new states, |  | 14 |
| 6633559988 | Popular Sovereignty | the principle that the authority of a state and its government is created and sustained by the consent of its people, through their elected representatives (Rule by the People), who are the source of all political power. |  | 15 |
| 6633559990 | insurrection | Rebellion against political authority. |  | 16 |
| 6633559992 | depreciate | To decrease in value, as in the decline of the purchasing power of money. |  | 17 |
| 6633559993 | protective tariffs | Taxes places on imported goods, often to raise prices and thus protect domestic producers. |  | 18 |
| 6633559997 | duty | A customs tax on the export or import of goods. |  | 19 |
| 6633559998 | propaganda | A systematic program or particular materials designed to spread certain ideas; sometimes but not always the term implies the use of manipulative or deceptive means. |  | 20 |
| 6633559999 | boycott | An organized refusal to deal with some person, organization, or product. |  | 21 |
| 6633560000 | inflation | An increase in the supply of currency relative to the goods available, leading to a decline in the purchasing power of money. |  | 22 |
| 6633560001 | mercenary | A professional soldier who serves in a foreign army for pay. |  | 23 |
| 6633560002 | indictment | A formal written accusation charging someone with a crime. |  | 24 |
| 6633560005 | civilian | A citizen not in military service. |  | 25 |
| 6633560006 | confiscate | To seize private property for public use, often as a penalty. |  | 26 |
| 6633560007 | envoy | A messenger or agent sent by a government on official business. |  | 27 |
| 6633560009 | isolationist | Concerning the belief that a country should take little or no part in foreign affairs, especially through alliances or wars. |  | 28 |
| 6633560011 | blockade | The isolation of a place by hostile ships or troops. |  | 29 |
| 6633560012 | privateer | A private vessel temporarily authorized to capture or plunder enemy ships in wartime. |  | 30 |
| 6633560013 | disestablish | To separate an official state church from its connection with the government. |  | 31 |
| 6633560014 | emancipation | Setting free from servitude or slavery |  | 32 |
| 6633560015 | abolitionist | favoring the end of slavery |  | 33 |
| 6633560016 | ratification | The confirmation or validation of an act (such as the constitution) by authoritative approval. |  | 34 |
| 6633560018 | township | in America, a surveyed territory six miles square; the term also refers to a unit of social government, smaller than a country that is often based on these survey units. |  | 35 |
| 6633560019 | territory | In America, government an organized political entity not yet enjoying full equal terms of a state. | | 36 |
| 6633560020 | annex | To make a smaller territory or political unit part of a larger one. |  | 37 |
| 6633560023 | bicameral | Referring to a legislative body with two houses |  | 38 |
| 6633560024 | census | An official count of population; in the United States, the federal census occurs every ten years. |  | 39 |
| 6633560025 | public debt | The debt of a government or nation to individual creditors, also called the national debt. |  | 40 |
| 6633560026 | cabinet | The body of official advisers to the head of a government; in the United States, it consists of the heads of the major executive departments. |  | 41 |
| 6633560027 | fiscal | Concerning public finances-expenditures and revenues. |  | 42 |
| 6633560028 | excise | A tax on the manufacture, sale, or consumption of certain products. |  | 43 |
| 6633560030 | despotism | Arbitrary or tyrannical rule. |  | 44 |
| 6633560031 | impressment | To force people or property into public service without choice. |  | 45 |
| 6633560032 | assimilation | The merging of diverse cultures or peoples into one. |  | 46 |
| 6633560033 | witch-hunt | An investigation carried on with much publicity, supposedly to uncover dangerous activity but actually intended to weaken the political opposition. |  | 47 |
| 6633560034 | compact | An agreement or covenant between states to perform some legal act. |  | 48 |
| 6633560035 | nullification | In American politics, the assertion that a state may legally invalidate a federal act deemed inconsistent with its rights or sovereignty. |  | 49 |
