The Revolution

1. Rule of law

1.1. Magna Carta

1.2. English Bills of Rights

1.3. Salutary Neglect

2. British Taxation

2.1. Stamp Act

2.2. Sugar Act

2.3. Vice-Admiralty Court in Halifax

2.4. George Grenville

3. American Responses

3.1. Sons of liberty

3.2. Stamp Act Congress

3.3. Boston Tea Party

3.4. Declaration of the Right and Grievances

3.5. Non-importation Agreements

3.6. Revenue Act

3.7. Continental Association

3.8. Committees of Correspondence

3.9. Gaspee Affair

3.10. Olive Branch Petition

3.11. Suffolk Resolves

4. British Policies

4.1. Mercantilism

4.2. French and Indian War

4.3. Proclamation of 1763

4.4. Declaratory Act

4.5. Townshend Acts

4.6. Writs of Assistance

4.7. Quartering Act

4.8. Tea Act

4.9. Coercive/Intolerable Acts

4.10. Currency Act

5. The Glorious Revolution

6. The Enlightenment

6.1. Thomas Hobbes

6.2. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

6.3. Baron de Montesquieu

6.4. Voltaire

6.5. Social Contract

6.6. Checks and Balances

6.7. Freedom of Speech

6.8. John Locke

6.9. Natural Rights

7. American Self-government

7.1. Mayflower Compact

7.2. Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

7.3. House of Burgesses

7.4. Albany Plan of Union

8. Challenging Authority

8.1. The First Great Awakening

9. Revolutionary Events

9.1. Boston Massacre

9.2. Siege of Boston

9.3. First Continental Congress

9.4. Battles of Lexington and Concord

9.5. Second Continental Congress

9.6. Common Sense

9.7. Declaration of Independence

9.8. American Revolutionary War