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| 13845249108 | Franklin's Albany Plan | a plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies, suggested by Benjamin Franklin, at the Albany Congress on July 10, 1754 in Albany, New York | 0 | |
| 13845309369 | Iroquois Confederacy | a confederation of Native American Indians composed of 5 important tribes | 1 | |
| 13845408588 | Proclamation of 1763 | forbade white settlement on lands west of the Appalachian Mountains, which would be "preserved to the said Indians", created in the hopes of not having conflicts with the Indian tribes | 2 | |
| 13845712016 | Sugar Act of 1764 | a revenue-raising act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain on April 5th, 1764 | 3 | |
| 13845900589 | Stamp Act Crisis | imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in North America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp | 4 | |
| 13845904412 | "Virginia Resolves" | a series of resolutions passed by the Virginia House of Burgesses in response to the Stamp Act of 1765 | 5 | |
| 13845906231 | Declaratory Act | states that the British Parliament's taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britian, it came after repealing the Stamp Act | 6 | |
| 13845908381 | Mutiny Act of 1765 | the British parliamentary provision requiring colonial authorities to provide food, drink, quarters, fuel, and transportation to British forces stationed in their towns or villages | 7 | |
| 13845912190 | Townshend Duties | a series of four acts passed by the British parliament in an attempt to assert what it considered to be its historic right to exert authority over the colonies through suspension of authoritative representative assembly and through strict provisions for the collection of revenue duties | 8 | |
| 13845925593 | Boston Massacre | known as the first bloodshed of the American revolution, a skirmish between British troops and a crowd in Boston, about "no taxation without representation", six of the protesters were killed | 9 | |
| 13845941453 | Committees of Correspondence | groups appointed by the legislatures in the 13 British American colonies to provide colonial leadership and aid inter colonial cooperation | 10 | |
| 13845944426 | Virtual vs. Direct Representation | created off of the famous line "no taxation without representation", people in the british parliament were the only ones to talk for the american colonies; the people of the colonies need their own representation | 11 | |
| 13845952456 | Tea Act | reduce the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the financially struggling company survive | 12 | |
| 13845956823 | Intolerable Acts | meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their neglect towards the Boston Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the british to the detriment of colonial goods | 13 | |
| 13845970323 | First Continental Congress | a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that would ultimately join in the Revolutionary War, from September 5 to October 26, 1774 | 14 | |
| 13845970324 | Adam Smith | a scottish philosopher, who published the Wealth of Nations, one of the most influential book on market economics ever written | 15 | |
| 13845973795 | John Locke | an influential philosopher who was widely regarded as one of the most influential of enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism" | 16 | |
| 13845975522 | Sons of Liberty | a secret society that fought against the rights of the colonists and the unfair taxation | 17 | |
| 13845975523 | Pontaic's Rebellion | launched in 1763, an uprising against the British just after the close of the French and Indian War, due to the fear of losing land to the British | 18 | |
| 13845982292 | Abigail Adams | one of the most important women in the first, fought for the women's rights, female education and the abolition of slavery | 19 | |
| 13845982293 | Paxton Boys | an attack in 1763 by Pennsylvania frontiersmen upon an Indian settlement during the Pontiac Indian, 57 drunken settlers slaughtered 20 innocent Indians | 20 |
