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John Locke
Was a philosopher and enlightenment thinker known as the father of classical liberalism. He influenced Thomas Jefferson with his beliefs in natural right (life,liberty,and seek for happiness. -
Baron de Montesquieu
was a French philosopher who lived during the European Age of Enlightenment, in the 17th and 18th centuries. His writings and his political ideas were read by many American colonists and founders and had a profound influence on the shaping of the U.S. ConstitutionBaron de Montesquieu wasn't directly involved in the development of the United States Constitution, but his views on government were integral in providing the framework for the separation of powers. -
Lord Cornwallis
He was a British army officer and also led several successful early campaigns during the American Revolution. Securing British victories at New York, brandy wine and Camden. In 1781 as second command to general Henry lost his battle of Yorktown. This American victory and Cornwallis' surrender of his troops to George Washington was the final major conflict of the American Revolution. -
french and indain war
Also known as the Seven Years’ War, this New World conflict marked another chapter in the long imperial struggle between Britain and France. When France’s expansion into the Ohio River valley brought repeated conflict with the claims of the British colonies, a series of battles led to the official British declaration of war in 1756. Boosted by the financing of future Prime Minister William Pitt, the British turned the tide with victories at Louisbourg, Fort Frontenac and the French-Canadian stro -
Proclamation of 1763
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. -
Sugar Act
Parlament passed a motified version of the sugar act and molasses act which was about to expire. It placed duties on certian imports. Importantly it strengthened the enforcement of the law allowing prosecutors to try smuggling cases in a vice admiralty rather thanin more sympathtic colonial court. -
Stamp Act
an act of the British Parliament in 1756 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. Colonial opposition led to the act's repeal in 1766 and helped encourage the revolutionary movement against the British Crown -
Sons and daughters of liberty
They were the Sons and Daughters of Liberty. Like other secret clubs at the time, the Sons of Liberty had many rituals. They had secret code words, medals, and symbols. Originally formed in response to the Stamp Act, their activities were far more than ceremonial. -
Townshend Act
It was a series of measures introduced into English parliament by Chancellor of the exchequer Charles Townshend in 1767, the acts imposed duties on the glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea imported into the colonist. Townshend hoped the acts would defray imperial expenses in the colonies, but many Americans viewed the taxation as an abuse of power, resulting in the passage of agreements to limit imports from Britain. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry. -
commitees of correspondece
It was a network to communicate between the colonies against the rules imposed by the british -
Committees of correspondence
The Committees of Correspondence were the American colonies’ means for maintaining communication lines in the years before the Revolutionary War. In 1764, Boston formed the earliest Committee of Correspondence to encourage opposition to Britain’s stiffening of customs enforcement and prohibition of American paper money. The following year, New York formed a similar committee to keep the other colonies notified of its actions in resisting the Stamp Act. -
The Boston Tea Party
This famed act of American colonial defiance served as a protest against taxation. Seeking to boost the troubled East India Company, British Parliament adjusted import duties with the passage of the Tea Act in 1773. While consignees in Charleston, New York, and Philadelphia rejected tea shipments, merchants in Boston refused to concede to Patriot pressure. On the night of December 16, 1773, Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea -
First Continental Congress
The first continental congress met in Philadelphia. All colonies except Georgia sent delegates. It was a meeting of delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies met in reaction to the coercive acts, a series of measures imposed by the British government on the colonies in response to their resistance to new taxes from early in the American Revolution. -
The Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts was the American Patriots' name for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party. They were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in throwing a large tea shipment into Boston harbor -
salutary neglect
A british policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws meant to keep American colonies obedient to England.was to most likely to let the colonies do whatever they want to keep them in a favorable situation between the colonies and their ruler. -
Battle of Lexington and concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. They were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge, near Boston. -
Second Continental Congress
It was a convention of delegates from the thirteen colonies that started meeting in the summer of 1775 in Philadelphia soon after warfare in the American Revolution war had begun. They made decisions when and where to attack the British and how to protect themselves. They also issued paper money and set up a system where the government would borrow money from the citizens and pay it back with interest. They even created a postal system and the first American navy. -
common sense
Thomas paine published anonymously, “Common Sense” advocated independence for the American colonies from Britain and is considered one of the most influential pamphlets in American history. -
declaration of independence
Early summer 1776 ,events pushed the wavering continental congress towards a decision.the congress appointed a committe to prepare a formal declaration explaining the reasons for the colonies actions. that let to the to the declaration of independence for america. -
Battle of Trenton
Was a small but pivotal battle during the american revolutionry war which took place on the morning of december 26 1776 -
Battle of Saratoga
Fought eighteen days apart in the fall of 1777, the two Battles of Saratoga were a turning point in the American Revolution. On September 19th, British General John Burgoyne achieved a small, but costly victory over American forces led by Horatio Gates and Benedict Arnold. Though his troop strength had been weakened, Burgoyne again attacked the Americans at Bemis Heights on October 7th, but this time was defeated and forced to retreat. -
ValleyForge
Yet, it was the turning point of the Revolutionary War. It was here that the Continental army was desperately against the ropes — bloody, beaten, battle-weary — and ready to quit. Even General Washington conceded, "If the army does not get help soon, in all likelihood it will disband." -
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence, served as the third president of the United States.supported the American Revolution, and served as governor of Virginia during the Revolutionary War. -
Battle of Yorktown
The Siege of Yorktown, also known as the Battle of Yorktown, the Surrender at Yorktown or the German Battle, ending on October 19, 1781 at Yorktown, Virginia, was a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington and French Army troops led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by British lord and Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis. -
Treaty Of Paris
Signed In Paris by representatives of king George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America on September 3 1783 that ended the Revolutionary war and recognized Americas independence.
