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A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775-76 advocating independence from Great Britain to the people in the Thirteen Colonies.

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Religious dissenter who came to the colonies to purify, or reform, the Anglican Church

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To cancel a law

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The formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain.

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A convention of delegates from the 13 colonies that formed in Philadelphia in May 1775, soon after the launch of the American Revolutionary War.

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A meeting of delegates from twelve of the Thirteen Colonies who met from September 5 to October 26, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall.

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A series of religious revivals in the North American British during the 17th and 18th Centuries.

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Those who followed a religious faith other than the official religion of England.

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A group of people in one place who are ruled by a parent country elsewhere.

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Movement that spread the idea that reason and science could improve society.

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A written document granting land and the authority to set up colonial governments.

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Acts of the British Parliament in 1767, especially the act that placed duties on tea, paper, lead, paint, etc., imported into the American colonies.

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Workers who contracted with American colonists for food and shelter in return for their labor.

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A series of British measures passed in 1774 and designed to punish the Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party.

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A person who is dissatisfied, typically with the prevailing social or political situation.

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The notion that power lies with the people.

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Governing or controlling body whose power exists only within pre-defined limits that are established by a constitution or other source of authority.

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The maintenance of administration of what is just especially by the impartial adjustment of conflicting claims or the assignment of merited rewards or punishments.

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The positive enjoyment of various social, political, or economic rights and privileges.

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Freedoms that each individual in the United States have which cannot be transferred to another person or surrendered except by the individual having those rights.

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Freedoms people possess relating to life, liberty, and property.

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Policy of the British government from the early to mid-18th century regarding its North American colonies under which trade regulations for the colonies were laxly enforced and imperial supervision of internal colonial affairs was loose as long as the colonies remained loyal to the British government and contributed to the economic profitability of Britain

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The theory that a country should sell more goods to other countries than it buys.