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| a clash between Birtish soldiers and Boston colonists in 1770, in which five of the colonists were killed. |
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| the dumping of 15,000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor by colonists in 1773 to protest the Tea Act. |
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| Was infuriated by the organized destruction of British property, and he pressed Parliament to act. |
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| Key enlightenment thinker, maintained that people have natural rights to life, liberty, and property |
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| Thomas Paine's "common sense" |
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| A pamphlet titled "common sense" 47 page widely read, Paine attacked King George and the Monarchy. |
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| Thomas Paine's "common sense" |
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| A pamphlet titled "common sense" 47 page widely read, Paine attacked King George and the Monarchy. |
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| Declaration of Independence |
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| document written by thomas Jefferson in 1776, in which the delegates of the continental Congres declared the colonies independence from Britain. |
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| A colonist who supported American Independence from Britain |
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| a colonist who supported the british government during the american revolution |
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| General, captured Charlestown, South Carolina in May 1780, For most of 1780, he suceeded. |
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| Cornwallis took his army of 7,200 to camp at Yorktown to plan to fortify yorktown, take Virginia, and then move North to join clintion's forces. |
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| called for three fifths of a state slaves to be counted as population. |
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| on uprising of debt, ridden Massachusetts farmers in 1787 |
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| a law that established the federal court system and the supreme court that provided for the apeal of certain state court decisions to the federal courts. |
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| Hero of the Revolution, unanimous choice in the first presidental ballot. |
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| believed in a strong central governmentby a aprasierious educated elite of upper class cictizens. |
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| Distrusted a strong central government and the rich |
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| What hamilton pushed through excive tax- a tax on a products manufacture sale or distribution to believe on the manufacture of whisky |
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| a serious of four laws enacted in 1798 to reduce the political power of recent immigrants to the United States. |
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