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Products such as tobacco, sugar, and cotton could now only be shipped to English colonies.
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This was a time when European politics, philosophy, science and communications were reoriented.
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He was a huge scientific and literary icon in the Americas. He was extremely hard working and one of the most well-known Americans.
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Thomas Paine was an American political activist, philosopher, theorist, and revolutionary. Common Sense was a pamphlet he wrote advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies
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He was an American Founding Father who was one of the main authors of the Declaration of Independence. This clearly advocated freedom.
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This was issued by King George III. This was a big turning point because it forbade settlement beyond the Appalachian mountains.
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This organization was formed to protect the freedom and rights of American citizens.
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Colonists were not happy with this new tax. They yelled out, "No taxation without representation!" This was a meeting held in New York City to discuss protests against British taxation.
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This incident occurred on King Street. British Army soldiers shot into an unarmed crowd on civilians and killed 5 of them. Citizens were outraged and scared.
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The Olive Branch was a symbol of peace or victory in history. King George III refused this petition at first.
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This was a system of government that believed in freedom for the people of America.
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The authors were Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, John Adams, and Robert R. Livingston.
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Benjamin Franklin signed a document recognizing France as an independent nation along with the U.S.
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This was the first constitution of the United States. It was ratified by all 13 states.
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Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, Henry Laurens, and John Adams represented the United States when this treaty was signed at the Hotel d'York in Paris. This established peace between Great Britain and France, Spain, and the Netherlands.
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This was an agreement that large and small states reached that defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the Constitution.
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Slaves would each count as 3/5ths of a vote.
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The U.S. House of Representatives decided that voting would apportioned by population, as desired by the Virginia Plan, and the Senate granted equal votes per state, as desired by the New Jersey Plan.
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Federalists supported a strong central government, and anti-federalists were opposed to it.
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This set of rights placed guidelines on all of the freedoms American citizens had.