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| 14820010637 | Navigation Acts | Laws that governed trade between England and its colonies. Colonists were required to ship certain products exclusively to England. These acts made colonists very angry because they were forbidden from trading with other countries. | 0 | |
| 14820010638 | Stono Rebellion | a 1739 uprising of slaves in South Carolina, leading to the tightening of already harsh slave laws | 1 | |
| 14820010639 | Glorious Revolution | the overthrow of King James II of England | 2 | |
| 14820010640 | Salem Witch Trials | Several accusations of witchcraft led to sensational trials in Salem, Massachusetts. 18 people were hanged as witches. Afterwards, most of the people involved admitted that the trials and executions had been a terrible mistake. ALL ABOUT ECONOMICAL DIFFERENCES | 3 | |
| 14820010641 | Salutary Neglect | An English policy of not strictly enforcing laws in its colonies | 4 | |
| 14820010642 | Molasses Act | (1733) A British law that imposed a tax on sugar, molasses, and rum imported from non-British colonies into North American colonies. It was the least successful of the Navigation Acts, since it was avoided by smuggling. | 5 | |
| 14820010643 | First Great Awakening | The First Great Awakening was a time of religious fervor during the 1730s and 1740s. The movement arose in reaction to the rise of skepticism and the waning of religious faith brought about by the Enlightenment. | 6 | |
| 14820010644 | Albany Congress | Intercolonial congress summoned by the British government to foster greater colonial unity and assure Iroquois support in the escalating war against the French. | 7 | |
| 14820010645 | Currency Act | prohibited colonies from issuing paper money, destabilized colonial economy | 8 | |
| 14820010646 | Sugar Act | law passed by the British Parliament setting taxes on molasses and sugar imported by the colonies | 9 | |
| 14820010647 | Stamp Act | an act passed by the British parliment in 1756 that raised revenue from the American colonies. FIRST TIME PARLIAMENT IMPOSED A DIRECT TAX ON COLONIES | 10 | |
| 14820010648 | Sons of Liberty | A radical political organization for colonial independence which formed in 1765 after the passage of the Stamp Act. They incited riots and burned the customs houses where the stamped British paper was kept. After the repeal of the Stamp Act, many of the local chapters formed the Committees of Correspondence which continued to promote opposition to British policies towards the colonies. The Sons leaders included Samuel Adams and Paul Revere. | 11 | |
| 14820010649 | Stamp Act Congress | A meeting of delegations from many of the colonies, the congress was formed to protest the newly passed Stamp Act It adopted a declaration of rights as well as sent letters of complaints to the king and parliament, and it showed signs of colonial unity and organized resistance. | 12 | |
| 14820010650 | Quartering Act | an act passed by the British that allowed British troops to live in the homes of the colonists | 13 | |
| 14820010651 | Declaratory Act | Act passed in 1766 after the repeal of the stamp act; stated that Parliament had authority over the the colonies and the right to tax and pass legislation "in all cases whatsoever." | 14 | |
| 14820010652 | Townshed acts | taxed goods such as glass, paper, paint, lead, and tea. taxes were low but colonists still objected | 15 | |
| 14820010653 | Circular Letter | A letter circulated in 1767 in reaction to the Townshend Act. It urged colonists to jointly sign a petition of protest and was influential in causing colonists to work together against the British. | 16 | |
| 14820010654 | Boston Massacre | The first bloodshed of the American Revolution (1770), as British guards at the Boston Customs House opened fire on a crowd killing five Americans | 17 | |
| 14820010655 | Committees of Correspondence | organized by patriot leader Samuel Adams, was a system of communication between patriot leaders in New England and throughout the colonies. They provided the organization necessary to unite the colonies in opposition to Parliament. The committees sent delegates to the First Continental Congress. | 18 | |
| 14820010656 | Tea Act | Law passed by parliament allowing the British East India Company to sell its low-cost tea directly to the colonies - undermining colonial tea merchants; led to the Boston Tea Party | 19 | |
| 14820010657 | Boston Tea Party | demonstration (1773) by citizens of Boston who (disguised as Indians) raided three British ships in Boston harbor and dumped hundreds of chests of tea into the harbor | 20 | |
| 14820010658 | Intolerable Acts | in response to Boston Tea Party, 4 acts passed in 1774, Port of Boston closed, reduced power of assemblies in colonies, permitted royal officers to be tried elsewhere, provided for quartering of troop's in barns and empty houses | 21 | |
| 14820010659 | Declaration of Rights and Grievances | created by delegates from nine colonies, set forth view of British power in colonies. Parliament didn't have right to tax colonists without their legislative consent and demanded repeal of Stamp and Sugar Acts | 22 | |
| 14820010660 | Lexington and Concord | first battles of the Revolutionary War | 23 | |
| 14820010661 | Second Continental Congress | Political authority that directed the struggle for independence beginning in 1775. De facto government of revolution | 24 | |
| 14820010662 | Valley Forge | Place where Washington's army spent the winter of 1777-1778, a 4th of troops died here from disease and malnutriton, Steuben comes and trains troops | 25 | |
| 14820010663 | Yorktown | Last battle of the war of independence in 1789 where the British surrendered. | 26 | |
| 14820010664 | Treaty of Paris | agreement signed by British and American leaders that stated the United States of America was a free and independent contry | 27 | |
| 14820010665 | Articles of Confederation | A weak constitution that governed America during the Revolutionary War. | 28 | |
| 14820010666 | Northwest Ordinance | a law passed by Congress in 1787 that specified how western lands would be governed | 29 | |
| 14820010667 | Shay's Rebellion | A series of attacks on courthouses by a small band of farmers led by Revolutionary War Captain Daniel Shays to block foreclosure proceedings. HIGHLIGHTED NEED FOR STRONG CENTRAL GOVERNMENT | 30 |
