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| Stamp Act | passed by Parliament, required colonists to pay a direct tax on a variety of printed items |
| Samuel Adams | helped found the Sons of Liberty |
| Boston Massacre | left Crispus Attucks and four others dead |
| Crispus Attucks | killed during the Boston massacre |
| Boston Tea Party | sent a forceful message to Britain regarding the colonists' feelings toward the Tea Act |
| Intolerable Acts | a series of measure that shut down Boston Harbor, and authorized British commanders to house soldiers in private homes |
| Declaration of Independence | after reading this, King George urged Parliament to order a naval blockade of the American coast |
| Common Sense | written by Thomas Paine, spurred many Americans toward demanding independence from Britain |
| Thomas Paine | author of Common Sense |
| Declaration of Independence | announced that people have unalienable rights to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happines" |
| unalienable rights | life, liberty, and the pursuit of hapiness |
| Second Continental Congress | declared American independence on July 2, 1776 |
| Declaration of Independence | adopted on July 4, 1776 |
| Valley Forge | This is where, on Christmas night in 1776, George Washington led 2,400 men in rowboats across an ice-choked river |
| Yorktown | site of the British surrender and the end of the Revolutionary War |
| egalitarianism | this is a belief in the equality of all people |
| Republicanism | the idea that government should be based on the consent of the people |
| consent | permission |
| The Great Compromise | determined that a state's representation in the House of Representatives would be based on its population |
| checks and balances | system to prevent any one federal branch from dominating the other two |
| dominating | controlling |
| Ratification | formal approval |
| elastic clause | allows for flexibility in the Constitution to meet the changing needs of the people |
| The Cabinet | group of advisors to the President |
| Whiskey Rebellion | demonstrated the need for a stronger federal government |
| redcoats | British soldiers |
| minutemen | American revolutionary soldiers |
| Battle of Lexington | first fighting between redcoats and minutemen |
| John Locke | enlightenment thinker whose ideas were the basis for the Declaration of Independence |
| Thomas Jefferson | wrote the Declaration of Independence |
| Declaration of Independence | inspired by John Locke, written by Thomas Jefferson |
| checks and balances | system that maintains the separation of powers among the branches of the federal government |
| antifederalists | these people demanded the addition of a bill of rights to the COnstitution |
| the Bill of Rights | the first ten amendments to the US Constitution |
| The Great Compromise | called for a two-house legislature with one house having equal representation and the other having representation based on population |
| The Bill of Rights | added to the COnstitution to protect personal liberties |
