| Sugar Act | | First Battles of the Revolution |
| Stamp Act | | Placed strict limits on government to protect the people |
| Townshend Acts | | Turning Point of The War |
| Tea Act | | Tax on Sugar |
| Intolerable Acts | | Power of the government is shared between the states and the national government |
| Popular Sovereignty | | The first 10 amendments of the Constitution protects individuals rights against the power of the government |
| Republicanism | | an economic system in which private business operates in competition and largely free of state control. |
| Federalism | | Closed Boston |
| Separation of Powers | | the economic theory that trade generates wealth and is stimulated by the accumulation of profitable balances, which a government should encourage by means of protectionism. |
| Checks and Balances | | Ended the American Revolution |
| Limited Government | | Tax on Documents |
| Individual Rights | | Taxed Tea |
| Mercantilism | | Government in which the desires of people are represented in government by elected representatives |
| Free Enterprise | | Tax on Imported Goods |
| Lexington and Concord | | Government was created by people to order themselves |
| Saratoga | | Each branch makes sure the others are working the way they are supposed too. |
| Yorktown | | Split the powers of government between three branches; Executive, Legislation, and Judicial Branches |
| Treaty of Paris 1783 | | Last Major Battle of the Wat |