He wrote a pamphlet on "Common Sense"

When Indians dumped 18,000 pounds of the East India Company’s tea into the waters of Boston Harbor.

anyone who paid for their own or another’s passage to Virginia received 50 acres of land. Immigration to the colony jumped

Stock companies allowed several investors to pool their wealth in support of a colony that would, hopefully, yield a profit

He wrote the deceleration of I dependence

In this treaty it confirmed U.S. independence and set the boundaries of the new nation.

This held that a country’s ultimate goal was self-sufficiency and that all countries were in a competition to acquire the most gold

A river in James named after the king

He was the leader of a continental army

This petition urged a return to “the former harmony” between Britain and the colonies

Series of law restricting colonial trade

Owners brought these people to work in their plantations

Under him the British army finally began winning battles, which prompted the powerful Iroquois to support them.

In 1689 parliament wanted to pass the throne to William and Mary.

Belief in equality to all people

One under direct control of the king

One if his famous experiments was flying a kite in a thunderstorm

In this war a hit-and-run tactics was used, and Native Americans attacked and burned outlying settlements throughout New England.

relaxed its enforcement of most regulations in return for the continued economic loyalty of the colonies.

Congress printed more and more money, its value plunged, causing rising prices