Who dressed like Who, boarded British Ships and dumped tea into the Boston Harbor on Dec. 16, 1773.

Boston Tea Party

British soliers planned to take what and capture who?

Boston Citizens

Intolerable Acts

Second Continental Congress

-Met to decide whether to work things out with Britain or declare independence

-Sent Olive Branch Petition to Parliment asking to settle things peacefully

-Formed Continental Army and made Gorge Washington commander-in-chief

-Created a navy

-Asked Native American allies to help them

Battle of Bunker Hill

(battle of Breed's hill)

-Colonists built stone walls across Boston to Provide protection from the British.

-British wanted to take down the walls so they attacked by land and sea

-British won, but the fight proved the colonists would be hard to beat

-Thomas Jefferson was the Chief writer

-Written to tell why the colonistswanted to become an independent nation

-Document Parts: - Premble Colonists' ideas about government-Statement of rights (life, liberty, and the pursuite of happiness)-Colonists' grievances against the king

-July 4,1776 the Decloration was approved

-African Americans were promised freedom if they fought on either side

-Women served as spies, cooked, sewed, and performed other duties

-British army was larger, better trained, and had more supplies

- Washington's army crossed the Deleware River in December 1776, and captured over 900 German Hessians at Trenton, NJ in surprise attack.

-Americans won the Battle of Saratoga which was turning point in the war because it convinced the French to support the Americans.

-Washington and his army spent a difficult winter at Valley Forge training with foreige officers, Fredrick von Steuben and Marquis de Lafayette.

-Final battle of the revolution in which the colonists won

-Liberty Bell was rung to announce the news of America's victory

-Officially  ended the American Revolution

-Named the United of America a new country and set it's boarders

-James Madison is known as the "Father of the constitution."

-Constitution approved on September 17, 1787 by the constitutional Congress.-9 of 13 states had to approve the constitution for it to be put into effect

-Parts of the Constitution-Premble - states the purpose of the Constitution- Set-up a fair government and secure the freedom of all Americans- Articals - defines the roles and responseabilities of the national and state governments

-Guarantees and protects the rights of the people

-Added after the Contitution was ratified

-First 10 amendments

-Proposed by Roger Sherman

-Created two houses of Congress

                      -Senate - Two representitives form each state

     -House of representitives - represntitives based on a states population

- A system that gives each branch of government different powers so that each branch can watch over the authority of the others

- No branch is more important htqan the others.

- Manages the government

- Proposes new laws

- Heads the armed forces

Can override vetos

-Passes taxes

-Makes laws

-Approves treaties

Approves the appointment of Supreme Court Justices

- Explains laws

- Explains treaties

Rules actions as Constitutional

- Gorge Washington - first President

- John Adams - first Vice President

- Gorge Washington's cabinet:

Thomas Jefferson - Secretary of State

Alexander Hamilton - Secretary of the Treasury

Henry Knox - Secretary of war

- John Adams - second president

-land bought in 1803 form the French for $15 million dollars

- U.S. wanted to control the port of New Orlands to protect its trade routes

-Doubled the size of the U.S.

-Located west of the Mississippi river

- Lewis and Clark were sent to explore the territory by President Jefferdon

-Zebulon Pike explored the southwestern part of the Luoisiana Purchase

-Discovered a large mountain that was part of the Rocky Mountains, which was later named Pike's Peek

-British navy was capturing American ships and sailors and giving Native Americans weapons to use against the Americans

-U.S. declared war against Britain and Beat them

-White House set on fire, but Dolly Adams was able to save many valuable items

-Written by Francis Scotte Key during the war of 1812

-U.S.'s national anthem

-Written by President James Monroe

- Acknowledged Europe's existing colonies in the western Hemisphere, but closed the Hemisphere to any future European colonies

Andrew Jackson - seventh President nicknamed "Old Hickory"

-Against the Second Bank of the U.S.