American Revolution
by Dylan Hyman
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