Stop Acting Out
Placed a tax on all legal documents and newspapers
Stamp Act
To refuse to purchase certain goods or services
Boycott
This was the biggest reason the Articles of Confederation failed
It could not enforce taxes
The quality or state of being free
Liberty
Where was the Continental Congress held?
Philadelphia
The British called them the coercive Acts but the colonists called them this
The intolerable acts
Secretly importing or exporting, particularly to avoid paying the tax on items
Smuggling
How many states needed to agree in order to amend or change the Articles of Confederation?
All 13
A fancy word for a tax on imported goods
Duty
What type of Legislature did the country have under the Articles of Confederation?
Stated that Parliament had the right to tax and make decisions for the colonists "in all cases whatsoever"
Declaratory Act
An official public statement
Proclamation
This Ordinance described how Western lands would be divided up
Ordinance of 1785
A legislature where there are 2 houses
Bicameral
What is a Bill of Rights
A document that lists specific rights each citizen has that cannot be taken away
Allowed tea from the East India Tea company to be purchased without paying the tax
Tea Act
To cancel a law
Repeal
This ordinance was used as a model of how to admit new states into the union. It also divided up areas in the Midwest and declared slavery illegal in those areas
Northwest Ordinance
To vote approval of
Ratify
How many of the 13 states needed to agree to pass a law under the Articles of Confederation?
9
Placed a tax on glass, lead, paper, paint, tea and a wide variety of other products
Townsend Acts
A representative to a meeting
Delegate
What was the phrase the states used to describe their relationship under the Articles of Confederation
"A Firm League of Friendship"
An uprising of Massachusetts farmers that served as a warning sign that more rebellions could happen if they didn't revise the Articles
Shays' Rebellion
In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson drew a lot on this person's political ideas of Self-Government
John Locke