Vocabulary
A religious revival (renewal of religious interest) that swept the nation during the 1730s and 1740s.
What is the Great Awakening?
What is the Revolutionary War?
Who is King George?
A inherited British tradition where a government has two parts.
What is bicameral legislature?
The first version of the constitution that focused on individual rights and gave little power to the central government.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
The idea that everyone is born with privileges that cannot be taken or given away by governments or individuals.
What are inalienable rights?
Signed on July 4, 1776 and says “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
What is the Declaration of Independence?
A schoolteacher who wanted to help fight in the American Revolution. Also known as Robert Shurtleff.
Who is Deborah Sampson?
The right to own and carry weapons.
What is the right to bear arms?
This act prohibited colonists from settling west of the Appalachian mountains because he didn’t want to spend any money to keep the colonists safe.
What is the Royal Proclamation of 1763?
A word that means “belonging to the people”
What is "republic"?
An English document written in 1215 that demanded the law apply to everyone in Britain, even the king.
What is the Magna Carta?
Around 1752, he became an officer in the Virginia militia and took soldiers into battle during the first few clashes that led to the French and Indian War.
Who is George Washington?
Plan where states with larger populations would have more representatives in Congress.
What is the Virginia Plan?
This act said that colonists could only buy tea from the British East India Company and they were required to pay a tax on the tea.
What is the Tea Act of 1773?
a form of government that focuses on individual freedom and bringing about the common good for all citizens.
What is civic republicanism?
In summer of 1787, delegates of the Constitutional Convention kept windows closed during debates for this reason.
What is in order to give the delegates freedom to argue back and forth and change their minds if necessary without outside opinions weighing in?
Founding Father who proposed the Bill of Rights and helped write the Constitution.
Who is James Madison?
Plan where each state, no matter its size, would have the same number of representatives in Congress.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
This act said all paper materials in the colonies had to carry a British stamp that proved a tax had been paid.
What is the Stamp Act of 1765?
The belief that the liberty of the individual is more important than other principles.
What is classical liberalism?
The Constitution is ratified in 1789. In order to ratify it had this setup: in the Senate: each state has two senators and in the House of Representatives, the number of representatives would be determined by population. An agreement by this name was reached.
What is known as the Great Compromise?
The Founding Father who wrote the Statute of Religious Freedom to protect the right to practice any religion.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Enslaved people would be counted when figuring out the population of the state in order to assign representatives, but only partially counted as a full person.
What is known as the Three-Fifths Compromise?
Essays used to convince others that the United States needed a strong federal government.
What are the Federalist papers?