American Revolution

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American Revolution by Mind Map: American Revolution

1. British Taxation

1.1. George Grenville

1.1.1. Passed Stamp Act

1.2. Vice-Admiralty Court in Halifax

1.3. Stamp Act

1.3.1. Required printed materials to be printed on stamped paper

1.4. Sugar Act

2. American Responses

2.1. Stamp Act Congress

2.2. Sons of Liberty

2.3. Boston Tea Party

2.4. Declaration of Rights and Grievances

2.5. Non-importation Agreements

2.6. Revenue Act

2.7. Continental Association

2.8. Committees of Correspondence

2.9. Gaspee Affair

2.10. Olive Branch Petition

2.11. Suffolk Resolves

3. Elements and types of government

3.1. Republic

3.2. Democracy

3.3. Mobocracy

3.4. Popular Soverignty

3.5. Census

3.6. Representation

3.7. Federalism

3.8. Bicameral Legislature

4. British Policies

4.1. Mercantilism

4.2. French and Indian War

4.2.1. Led to British being the major power in NA

4.3. Proclamation of 1763

4.4. Declaratory Act

4.5. Townshend Act

4.6. Writs of Assistance

4.7. Tea Act

4.8. Quartering Act

4.9. Coercive/Intolerable Acts

4.10. Currency Act

5. Revolutionary Events

5.1. Boston Massacre

5.2. Siege of Boston

5.3. First Continental Congress

5.4. Battles of Lexington and Concord

5.4.1. First shots of the Revolutionary War

5.5. Common Sense

5.6. Second Continental Congress

5.7. Declaration of Independence

6. Political Parties and ideas

6.1. Anti-Federalists

6.2. The Federalist Papers

7. Rule of Law

7.1. English Bill of Rights 1689

7.2. Magna Carta

7.3. Salutary Neglect

8. Enlightenment

8.1. Thomas Hobbes

8.1.1. Social Contract

8.1.2. Leviathan. The book in which he explained this theory

8.2. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

8.2.1. Government should be formed by the consent of the people

8.3. Baron de Montesquieu

8.3.1. Separation of Powers

8.3.2. Checks and balances

8.4. Voltaire

8.4.1. Freedom of speech

8.4.2. Freedom of religion

8.4.3. Freedom of expression

8.5. John Locke

8.5.1. Natural Rights

8.5.2. Two Treatises of Government

9. Creating a New Government

9.1. Virginia Plan

9.2. The Connecticut Plan

9.3. The New Jersey Plan

9.4. The Constitutional Convention

10. American Self-Goverment

10.1. Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

10.2. Mayflower Compact

10.3. House of Burgesses

10.3.1. First legislative assembly in the American colonies

10.4. Albany Plan of Union

10.4.1. Proposed by Benjamin Franklin

10.4.2. First proposal to unite the thirteen colonies

10.5. The Constitution of the United States

10.6. Virginia's Declaration of Rights

10.7. Virginia's Statute for Religious Freedom

10.8. Articles of Confederation

11. Founding Fathers

11.1. George Washington

11.2. John Adams

11.3. James Madison

11.4. Alexander Hamilton

11.5. Roger Sherman

12. Challenging Authority

12.1. The First Great Awakening

12.1.1. Jonathan Edwards

12.2. The Glorious Revolution

12.2.1. King James II overthrown by Parliament

13. The U.S Government

13.1. The Senate

13.2. The House of Representatives

13.3. The Judicial Branch

13.4. The Legislative Branch

13.5. The Executive Branch

13.6. The President

14. Issues of the New Government

14.1. Slavery

14.2. The Land Ordinance of 1785

14.3. Northwest Ordinance

14.4. Shay's Rebellion

14.5. Three-Fifths Compromise