| A | B |
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| Enlightenment Movement | The renewed interest in science and reason |
| Social Contract | Governments were created by people for protection, people can overthrow it |
| John Locke | Believed in Social Contract and people had NATURAL RIGHTS which were to be protected |
| Thomas Paine | He wrote the pamphlet "Common Sense", which advocated the colonists declare independence |
| Thomas Jefferson | He was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence |
| Common Sense | helped convince the colonies to declare independence and blamed King George III for the colonial problems. |
| Declaration of Independence | This document was based on the ideas of John Locke and Thomas Paine, |
| French and Indian War | Dealt with land claims in the Ohio River Valley, resulting in a removal of French in North America. |
| Proclamation of 1763 | This ordered that English colonists could not settle west of the Appalachian Mountains |
| Salutary Neglect | The non-enforcement of the Navigation Acts, which ended after the French and Indian War. |
| Stamp Act | This act was passed so that the colonies would help pay for the French and Indian War. |
| Boston Massacre | British soldiers fired into a rioting crowd of colonists. |
| Boston Tea Party | This was an example of the colonial protest of the taxes |
| Sons of Liberty | Early patriots who agitated the British in Boston and called for independence |
| Intolerable Acts | To punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party/ sparked the First Continental Congress. |
| First Continental Congress | This meeting to protest Intolerable Acts, but hoped for a peaceful resolve. |
| Minutemen | Fired the first shots at Lexington and Concord against the British, volunteer soldiers for the Patriots |
| Patriots | Those who favored independence in the colonies |
| Loyalists | Those who wanted to peacefully resolve the conflict with the British and opposed independence. |
| Neutrals | Those who were not partial to the Patriots or the Loyalists. |
| Lexington and Concord | This is where the first shots of the Revolution were fired, even before the Independence was declared! |
| Patrick Henry | Patriot who said, "Give me liberty, or give me death!" |
| Second Continental Congress | This meeting of the colonies declared independence. |
| Saratoga | This battle was the turning point of the Revolution, as it helped convinced France to enter a Treaty of Alliance |
| Yorktown | The final battle; Lord Cornwallis was trapped between Washington and the French fleet. |
| George Washington | The commander of the American Continental forces during the Revolution. |
| Ben Franklin | The American who convinced the King of France to become an American ally |
| Treaty of Paris | Ended the Revolutionary War, granted American independence and land west to the Mississippi River. |
| Mercantilism | Economic system where colonies trade only with mother country |
