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| 1142686283 | A bosten bookeeper and senior army artillerist that transported Seized British artillery from Ticonderoga (New york) to Bosten. | Henry Knox | |
| 1142686284 | Colonists who retained a profound reverence for the British crown and believed that if they failed to defend their king, they would sacrifice their personal honor. | Loyalists (Tories) | |
| 1142686285 | Colonists in favor of American Independence. | Patriots (Whigs) | |
| 1142686286 | German soldiers paid by the British to fight against the American Militia. | Hessians | |
| 1142686287 | A French supporter who fought alongside the American Patriots at the battle of Yorktown and encouraged the French join the fight against the British. | Marquis de Lafayette | |
| 1142686288 | Led the British into the battle of Saratoga and an eventual defeat. | General John Burgoyne | |
| 1142686289 | Led the American patriots into the battle of Saratoga to win over the British and influence the French to join for American independence from Britian. | General Horatio Gates | |
| 1142686290 | A turning point in the American Revolution. The American victory in this battle convinced France that Americans could win the war, and it allied itself with the Americans. | Battle of Saratoga | |
| 1142686291 | A military strategist from Europe who organized the American militia into a strong military force. | Fredrick Von Steuban | |
| 1142686292 | Father of the Northwest | George Roger Clark | |
| 1142686293 | A military leader of the Iroquois that joined Britain to fight American expansionism and independence. | Joseph Brant | |
| 1142686294 | The founder of Kentucky | Daniel Boone | |
| 1142686295 | Cornwallis' surrender to Layette and George Washington forced England to surrender their military action. | Battle of Yorktown | |
| 1142686296 | A treaty signed in 1783 when the British recognized American independence and agreed to withdraw all royal troops from the colonies. | Treaty of Paris | |
| 1142686297 | Was one of the American delegates who help form the Treaty of Paris, explained the Articles of Confederation as an recognition of America as a Confederacy of States (with its own governments), and was Washington's successor for the Presidency. He is best known for allowing the Alien and Sedition Act of 1798 to become law. | John Adams | |
| 1142686298 | One of the three delegates from America who help form the Treaty of Paris who, later, would be sent back to England to make negotiations to prevent another English-American conflict. | John Jay | |
| 1142686299 | A series of 85 newspaper essays penned by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay. It defended the rights of political minorities against majority tyranny, and it prevented a stubborn minority from blocking well-considered measures that the majority believed necessary for the national interest. | The Federalist | |
| 1142686300 | Was a man who was given political attention based off of "natural aristocracy" (personal accomplishments), attended the Philadelphia Convention of 1787, and was one of three delegates from America that aided in the formation of the Treaty of Paris. | Benjamin Franklin | |
| 1142686301 | A well known black American, he was a self taught mathematician and astronomer who was one of the surveyors for the national capital in D.C. | Benjamin Banneker | |
| 1142686302 | A Boston poet and slave who took ideals of the Revolution and linked it with the people of her color. | Phillis Wheatley | |
| 1142686303 | Reconciled the conflicting interests of large and small states, and stated the laws of the United States. | Constitution of the United States | |
| 1142686304 | John Adams' wife. She made clear that, besides participating in boycotts and spinning bees, women recognized that colonists' arguments against arbitrary British rule also applied to gender relations. | Abigail Adams | |
| 1142686305 | One of the most prominent free blacks to emerge during the Revolutionary period. Born a slave, Hall received his freedom in 1770 and immediately took a leading role among Boston blacks protesting slavery. | Prince Hall | |
| 1142686306 | Government that focused more on states' rights. It reserved to each state "its sovereignty, freedom and independence." | Articles of Confederation | |
| 1142686307 | Declared that there would be a freedom for religious practice in the states. | Virginia Statue for Religious Freedom | |
| 1142686308 | Established uniform procedures for surveying land north of the Ohio River. The law established a township six miles square as the basic unit of settlement. Every township would be subdivided into 36 sections of 640 acres each, one of which would be reserved as a source of income for schools. It imposed an arbitrary grid of straight lines and right angles across the landscape that conformed to European-American notions of private property while utterly ignoring the land's natural features. | Ordinance of 1785 | |
| 1142686309 | Defined the steps for the creation and admission of new states. It designated the area north of the Ohio River as the Northwest Territory and provided for its later division into states. It forbade slavery while the region remained a territory, although citizens could legalize the institution after statehood. | Northwest Ordinance | |
| 1142686310 | One of the delegates of the Articles of Federation, he introduced the Virginia Plan and played a central role in the Constitution's adoption. | James Madison | |
| 1142686311 | Called for the establishment of a strong central government rather than a federation of states. It gave Congress virtually unrestricted rights of legislation and taxation and power to veto any state law, and authority to use military force against the states. It specified a bicameral legislature and fixed representation in both houses of Congress proportionally to each state's population. | Virginia Plan | |
| 1142686312 | A counterproposal to the Virginia Plan, it recommended a single-chamber congress in which each state had an equal vote, just as the Articles. | New Jersey Plan | |
| 1142686313 | Designed to prevent one branch of government from dominating the other two. | checks and balances | |
| 1142686314 | Shared power and dual lawmaking by the national and state governments. | federalism | |
| 1142686315 | Allowed three-fifths of all slaves to be counted for congressional representation and, thereby, in the Electoral College that selected the president. | "three-fifths clause" |
