American Revolution
by Maria Garcia
1. Challenging Authority
1.1. The First Great Awakening
1.2. The Glorious Revolution
2. British Policies
2.1. Marcantilism
2.1.1. economic theory
2.1.2. Governmental Regulation
2.2. French and Indian War
2.2.1. Proclamation of 1763
2.3. Declaratory Act
2.4. Townshend Acts
2.5. Writs of Assistance
2.6. Quartering Act
2.7. Tea Act
2.8. Coercive/Intolerable Acts
2.9. Currency Acts
3. Rule of Law
3.1. Magna Carta
3.2. English Bill of Rights
3.2.1. 1689
3.3. Salutary Neglect
4. British Taxation
4.1. George Grenville
4.1.1. Sugar Act
4.1.2. Stamp Act
4.2. Vice-Admiralty Court in Halifax
5. Revolutionary Events
5.1. Boston Massacre
5.2. Siege of Boston
5.2.1. opening phase of the Revolutionary War
5.3. First Continental Congress
5.4. Battles of Lexington and Concord
5.4.1. first military engagements of Revolutionary War
5.5. Second Continental Congress
5.6. Common Sense
5.7. Declaration of Independence
5.7.1. Robert Livingston
5.7.2. Benjamin Franklin
5.7.3. John Adams
5.7.4. Roger Sherman
5.7.5. Thomas Jefferson
6. 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
7. American Responses
7.1. Stamp Act Congress
7.1.1. first gathering of elected representatives
7.2. Sons of Liberty
7.3. Boston Tea Party
7.4. Declaration of Rights and Grievances
7.5. Non-importation Agreements
7.6. Revenue Act
7.7. Continental Association
7.8. Committees of Correspondance
7.9. Gaspee Affair
7.10. Olive Branch Petition
7.11. Suffolk Resolves
8. American Self-Government
8.1. Mayflower Compact
8.1.1. first democratic government
8.2. Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
8.2.1. Thomas Hooker
8.2.2. first written constitution
8.3. House of Burgesses
8.3.1. Jamestown
8.3.2. first democratically-elected legislative body