Chapter 1 Part 1

8. colonies proclaimed themselves the United States of America, and the American Revolution formally began
11. stamps were bought and placed on most printed materials from newspapers and legal documents to diplomas and playing cards

1. bringing people back to religion
2. Thomas Paine helped sway public opinion with this pamphlet, published in January 1776
3. protest group that organized meetings and protests and tried to intimidate stamp distributors
4. said all people were born with certain natural rights, right to life, liberty, and property
5. laws that kept African captives from owning property, receiving an education, moving about freely, or meeting in large groups
6. first successful settlement in America
7. correspondence writes letters between colonies
9. new ideas about science, government, and world
10. systems involving exchanges of goods among the colonies, England, Caribbean sugar planters, and Africa