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Thomas Paine's Common Sense was a pamphlet arguing for American independence from British rule. -
The French and Indian War was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years' War
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The Stamp Act of 1765 was a law passed by the British Parliament that imposed a direct tax on the American colonies. -
The Townshend Act was a series of laws that imposed taxes on goods imported into the American colonies. This also included glass, tea, paint, and paper. -
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest where American colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians went on British ships and threw 340 chests of tea off the ships. -
The Battle of Bunker Hill was the first major battle of the American Revolutionary War, fought between British troops and American colonial forces in Charlestown, which is now known as Boston -
The Olive Branch Petition was a document expressing the colonists' loyalty to the British Crown and seeking a peaceful resolution to the growing conflict between Great Britain. -
The Battle of Trenton was a surprise attack by George Washington and the Continental Army against Hessian forces. -
The Constitution was ratified, meaning officially approved and adopted, through a series of state conventions, not by the state legislatures. -
The Battle of Yorktown was a major battle between the American Continental Army and the French army against the British and their allies -
The Treaty of Paris, which was signed in 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain and the United States -
The Constitutional Convention was a meeting in 1787 where 55 delegates from 12 out of the 13 newly Independent American states gathered to revise the Articles of Confederation, the nation's first governing document. -
The Compromise determined that three out of every five slaves were counted when determining a state's total population for legislative representation and taxation. -
The Great Compromise was essential in shaping the legislative structure of the United States by balancing the power between populous and less populous states. -
President Washington sent copies of the 12th Amendment, as adopted by Congress, to the states.