Backcountry

Middle ground

Enlightenment

Consumer revolution

Great Awakening

Itinerant preachers

Albany Plan

Seven Years’ War

Peace of Paris of 1763

Whigs

Parliamentary sovereignty

Stamp Act of 1765

Stamp Act Congress

Boston Massacre

Committee of correspondence

Boston Tea Party

Coercive Acts

First Continental Congress

Second Continental Congress

Common Sense

Loyalists

Yorktown

Treaty of Paris of 1783

Republicanism

African Methodist Episcopal Church

Natural rights

Articles of Confederation

Northwest Ordinance

Shays’s Rebellion

Virginia Plan

Three-fifths rule

Federalist

Antifederalists

Bill of Rights

Bank of the United States

Implied powers

French Revolution

Jay’s Treaty

Whiskey Rebellion

Farewell Address

Quasi-War

XYZ Affair

Alien and Sedition Acts

Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions