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| 14890628444 | Colonial Competition | The competition that occurred between the colonies of the Americas for resources. | 0 | |
| 14890628445 | French and Indian War | (1754-1763) War fought in the colonies between the English and the French for possession of the Ohio Valley area. The English won. | 1 | |
| 14890628446 | Seven Years War | (1756-1763 CE) Known also as the French and Indian War. It was the war between the French and their Indian allies and the English that proved the English to be the more dominant force of what was to be the United States both commercially and in terms of controlled regions. | 2 | |
| 14890628447 | Royal Proclamation of 1763 | Royal proclamation setting the boundary known as the Proclamation Line. | 3 | |
| 14890628448 | Stamp Act | 1765; law that taxed printed goods, including: playing cards, documents, newspapers, etc. | 4 | |
| 14890628449 | Sugar Act | (1764) British deeply in debt partl to French & Indian War. English Parliament placed a tariff on sugar, coffee, wines, and molasses. colonists avoided the tax by smuggling and by bribing tax collectors. | 5 | |
| 14890628450 | Townshend Acts | A tax that the British Parliament passed in 1767 that was placed on leads, glass, paint and tea | 6 | |
| 14890628451 | Tea Act | 1773 act which eliminated import tariffs on tea entering England and allowed the British East India Company to sell directly to consumers rather than through merchants. Led to the Boston Tea Party. | 7 | |
| 14890628452 | Boston Tea Party | A 1773 protest against British taxes in which Boston colonists disguised as Mohawks dumped valuable tea into Boston Harbor. | 8 | |
| 14890628453 | Intolerable Acts | Series of laws passed in 1774 to punish Boston for the Tea Party | 9 | |
| 14890628454 | Coercive Acts | This series of laws were very harsh laws that intended to make Massachusetts pay for its resistance. It also closed down the Boston Harbor until the Massachusetts colonists paid for the ruined tea. Also forced Bostonians to shelter soilders in their own homes. | 10 | |
| 14890628455 | Patriot Movement | Movement or push toward independence in the colonies. Those that supported colonial independence were referred to as "Patriots" while those that were loyal to the British crown were called "Loyalists." | 11 | |
| 14890628456 | Continental Congress | The legislative assembly composed of delegates from the rebel colonies who met during and after the American Revolution | 12 | |
| 14890628457 | Olive Branch Petition | On July 8, 1775, the colonies made a final offer of peace to Britain, agreeing to be loyal to the British government if it addressed their grievances (repealed the Coercive Acts, ended the taxation without representation policies). It was rejected by Parliament. | 13 | |
| 14890628458 | Declaration of Independence | The document recording the proclamation of the second Continental Congress (4 July 1776) asserting the independence of the colonies from Great Britain | 14 | |
| 14890628459 | Benjamin Franklin | American intellectual, inventor, and politician He helped to negotiate French support for the American Revolution. | 15 | |
| 14890628460 | Thomas Paine | Author of Common Sense | 16 | |
| 14890628461 | 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. | 17 | |
| 14890628462 | Valley Forge | Place where Washington's army spent the winter of 1777-1778, a 4th of troops died here from disease and malnutriton, Baron von Steuben comes and trains troops | 18 | |
| 14890628463 | Battle of Saratoga | A battle that took place in New York where the Continental Army defeated the British. It proved to be the turning point of the war. This battle ultimately had France to openly support the colonies with military forces in addition to the supplies and money already being sent. | 19 | |
| 14890628464 | Treaty of Alliance | Treaty where France agreed to help the colonists win their independence from England | 20 | |
| 14890628465 | Spinning Bees | Events organized Patriot women to promote American production of yarn. It was meant to help the boycott of British clothing. | 21 | |
| 14890628466 | Treaty of Paris | Agreement signed by British and American leaders that stated the United States of America was a free and independent country. | 22 | |
| 14890628467 | Eli Whitney | Invented the cotton gin | 23 | |
| 14890628468 | Fugitive Slave Act | A law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to slaveholders | 24 | |
| 14890628469 | Abigail Adams | Wife of John Adams. During the Revolutionary War, she wrote letters to her husband describing life on the homefront. She urged her husband to remember America's women in the new government he was helping to create. | 25 | |
| 14890628470 | Judith Murray | Wrote Women and Economics and "On the Equality of the Sexes." | 26 | |
| 14890628471 | Nationalism | A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country. | 27 | |
| 14890628472 | Hudson River School | Founded by Thomas Cole, first native school of landscape painting in the U.S.; attracted artists rebelling against the neoclassical tradition, painted many scenes of New York's Hudson River | 28 | |
| 14890628473 | Articles of Confederation | A weak constitution that governed America during the Revolutionary War. | 29 | |
| 14890628474 | Shay's Rebellion | Rebellion led by Daniel Shays of farmers in western Massachusetts in 1786-1787, protesting mortgage foreclosures. It highlighted the need for a strong national government just as the call for the Constitutional Convention went out. | 30 | |
| 14890628475 | Constitutional Convention | A meeting in Philadelphia in 1787 that produced a new constitution | 31 | |
| 14890628476 | Federalist Papers | A collection of 85 articles written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison under the name "Publius" to defend the Constitution in detail. | 32 | |
| 14890628477 | Bill of Rights | The first ten amendments to the Constitution. | 33 | |
| 14890628478 | Great Compromise | Agreement providing a dual system of congressional representation. | 34 | |
| 14890628479 | Separation of Powers | Constitutional division of powers among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches, with the legislative branch making law, the executive applying and enforcing the law, and the judiciary interpreting the law. | 35 | |
| 14890628480 | U.S. Constitution | The document written in 1787 and ratified in 1788 that sets forth the institutional structure of the U.S. government and the tasks these institutions perform. It replaced the Articles of Confederation. | 36 | |
| 14890628481 | Haitian Revolution | A major influece of the Latin American revolutions because of its successfulness; the only successful slave revolt in history; it is led by Toussaint L'Ouverture. | 37 | |
| 14890628482 | French Revolution | The revolution that began in 1789, overthrew the absolute monarchy of the Bourbons and the system of aristocratic privileges, and ended with Napoleon's overthrow of the Directory and seizure of power in 1799. | 38 | |
| 14890628483 | Latin American Revolutions | Series of risings in the Spanish colonies of Latin America (1810-1826) that established the independence of new states from Spanish rule but that for the most part retained the privileges of the elites despite efforts at more radical social rebellion by the lower classes. | 39 | |
| 14890628484 | Sister Republics | States and territories that fell under French control during the Directory and were reconstituted as republics in collaboration with native revolutionaries. | 40 | |
| 14890628485 | Reign of Terror | (1793-94) during the French Revolution when thousands were executed for "disloyalty." | 41 | |
| 14890628486 | Citizen Genet | French diplomat who in 1793 tried to draw the United States into the war between France and England (1763-1834). | 42 | |
| 14890628487 | Sedition Act | 1918 law that made it illegal to criticize the government. | 43 | |
| 14890628488 | Treaty of Greenville | Gave America all of Ohio after General Mad Anthony Wayne battled and defeated the Indians at the Battle of Fallen Timbers. 1795 Allowed Americans to explore the area with peace of mind that the land belonged to America and added size and very fertile land to America. | 44 | |
| 14890628489 | Treaty of New York | The agreement that ended the Oconee War; the Creek gave up all of their land east of the Oconee River. | 45 | |
| 14890628492 | Indian Trade and Intercourse Acts (1790-1796) | Prohibited transfers of tribal lands to outsiders unless authorized by Congress or treaty | 46 | |
| 14890628493 | Americanization | Process of acquiring or causing a person to acquire American traits and characteristics. | 47 | |
| 14890628494 | Washington's Farewell Address | Warned Americans not to get involved in European affairs, not to make permanent alliances, not to form political parties and to avoid sectionalism. | 48 |
