Important Terms Chapters 5-8 George III Treaty of Paris 1763 Writs of Assistance Admiralty Courts Chief Pontiac 1763 Proclamation Act George Grenville 1764 Sugar Act 1764 Currency Act Stamp Act Quartering Act Sons of Liberty Virginia Resolves Patrick Henry Stamp Act Congress Charles Townshend Samuel Adams John Hancock Boston Massacre Crispus Attucks Lord North British East India Co. Boston Tea Party Committees of Correspondence Coercive Acts Intolerable Acts Lexington & Concord When / Where does the "Revolution" begin? Declaration of Independence: 04 July 1776 Lexington & Concord: 19 April 1775 1st Continental Congress: Sept./Oct. 1774 2nd Continental Congress May 1775 Boston Tea Party: December 1773 Boston Massacre: 05 March 1770 Townshend Acts: 1766 Stamp Act Congress: October 1765 Sons of Liberty: Summer 1765 Stamp Act/Quartering Act: March 1765 Sugar Act: Spring 1764 "Imperial Crisis": 1754 - 1763 Molasses Act / Navigation Acts: 1651 - 1733 Bunker Hill / Breed’s Hill Thomas Paine Common Sense Declaration of Independence Battle of Trenton Patriots / Whigs Loyalists / Tories Ticonderoga Saratoga Benedict Arnold Valley Forge Baron von Steuben Banastre Tarleton Thomas Sumter Francis Marion (The Gamecock) (The Swamp Fox) Battle of Camden Battle of King’s Mountain Cowpens General Charles Cornwallis Battle of Yorktown Peace of Paris Articles of Confederation http://www.usconstitution.net/articles.html Northwest Ordinance Shay’s Rebellion James Madison Alexander Hamilton Constitutional Convention Virginia Plan New Jersey Plan The “Great Compromise” The Federalist Supreme Court John Jay Whiskey Rebellion John Adams Alien & Sedition Acts Thomas Jefferson