American Revolution

This act was passed by British Parliament and placed a tax on printed material

Document was signed by the first settlers in Massachusetts, they agreed to form a government

The colonies in which a plantation system was encouraged by climatic conditions.

People agree to grant to its government the powers necessary to protect their natural rights.

The slogan colonists used in anger of the taxes British Parliament enforced on them.

This act was passed by British Parliament and placed a tax on foreign imports.

This was the first representative body in colonial America.

This document granted more power to the states, was the first constitution of the US.

This Enlightenment thinker believed in the theory of natural rights.

This theory states that all men are born with the right to life, liberty, and property.

This document was used to state the colonists’ reasons for separating from Great Britain

This war was caused by a dispute between two world powers over land in the Ohio River valley.

This geographic feature served as the western boundary for the Proclamation of 1763

This policy was practiced by England and allowed its colonies local self-rule.

These colonies developed in a regionally diverse area, devloped large cities and small farms

Theory believes that people are the ultimate source of power and that power is derived from..

This act was passed by British Parliament and placed taxes on all imports from England.

This author wrote the pamphlet titled Common Sense.

Economic policy based on the relationship between Britain and its colonies.

Law provided a government based on Jefferson’s ideas in the Northwest Territory.

People who worked in the colonies for 7 years in exchange for free passage to North America.

Time period in Europe that had an influence on the ideas in the Declaration of Independence.

Law designed a system for distributing lands in the Northwest Territory after independence.

Rocky soil and a short growing season discouraged the development of a plantation economy here

This pamphlet persuaded individuals to support American independence from Great Britain.