Learn the American Revolution in 79 Flashcards: From the Stamp Act to the Bill of Rights
Study the American colonial period and Revolution with 79 real flashcards: Stamp Act, Boston Tea Party, Yorktown, Articles of Confederation and the road to the Constitution.
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Most students can name the Boston Tea Party and July 4, 1776, then stall on everything in between. The Revolution is not a list of battles — it is a chain of British acts and colonial responses, each triggered by the last. American Colonial Period & Revolution (deck code ZF5228) covers 1765 to 1791 in 79 cards, and the fastest route through it is to learn the chain, not the facts one by one.
Study this deck: American Colonial Period & Revolution
1 / 10When did the American Revolution take place?
Tap the card for the answer · swipe right if you knew it, left if not
The spine of the deck: cause and effect
The deck is organised around reactions. Learn these five pairs first and roughly forty cards fall into place:
- French and Indian War ends (1763) → Parliament taxes the colonies to recover war costs; the Royal Proclamation hands western lands to officials in Montreal.
- Stamp Act (1765) → Stamp Act Congress in New York, which issues the Declaration of Rights and Grievances.
- Tea Act (1773) → Boston Tea Party in December 1773, organised by the Sons of Liberty.
- Intolerable Acts → First Continental Congress (1774), twelve colonies, Georgia joining in 1775.
- Yorktown (28 September 1781) → collapse of King George's control of Parliament → Treaty of Paris, 3 September 1783.
Cards you will be drilling
| Front | Back |
|---|---|
| What was salutary neglect? | An unofficial British policy leaving the colonies to govern themselves, from the Glorious Revolution until the French and Indian War |
| What was the Declaratory Act? | Act asserting Parliament's right to legislate for the colonies "in all cases whatsoever" |
| What was the Lee Resolution? | Passed 2 July 1776, affirming support for joint independence |
| What territory did Britain cede in the Treaty of Paris? | Nearly all territory east of the Mississippi and south of the Great Lakes |
| What was Shays' Rebellion? | An armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, 1786-1787, exposing the weakness of the Articles of Confederation |
| What was the Northwest Ordinance? | 1787 law establishing how territories could become states |
Everything the 79 cards cover
British legislation: Sugar Act, Currency Act, Stamp Act, Declaratory Act, Townshend Acts, Quartering Acts, Tea Act, Intolerable Acts, Royal Proclamation of 1763.
Events: Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party, Lexington and Concord, Siege of Boston, Declaration of Independence, French alliance of 1778, Yorktown, Newburgh Conspiracy, Philadelphia Convention.
Bodies and people: Sons of Liberty, Committees of Correspondence, Continental Association, First and Second Continental Congress, Continental Army and Navy, Minutemen, Hessians, Committee of Five, Washington, Jefferson, King George III, Cornwallis, Patriots, Loyalists.
Ideas: rights of Englishmen, no taxation without representation, consent of the governed, mercantilism, the American Enlightenment, republicanism, liberalism, the Great Awakening, Perpetual Union.
Aftermath: Articles of Confederation, Confederation period (1781-1789), Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers, Constitution in effect 1789, Bill of Rights ratified 1791.
Two things that trip people up
The dates of 1776 are separate cards. Washington forces the British out of Boston in March, Congress votes to suppress Crown authority in May, the Lee Resolution passes 2 July, the Declaration is adopted 4 July. Put them on one timeline strip — otherwise you will answer "July 4" to three different questions and get two wrong.
Independence in 1783 is not government in 1789. The deck's last stretch covers the gap: Articles of Confederation, Newburgh Conspiracy, Shays' Rebellion, then the Convention. Treat 1783-1791 as its own chapter — the failures of the Articles are the cause, the Constitution the effect.
Search ZF5228 in the Flip It library to start. For the other end of the American story, see our Civil Rights Movement deck guide.
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