British efforts to protect the East India Company from bankruptcy led to this famous deviant act that helped escalate the tension between colonists and the British.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Thomas Paine's pamphlet Common Sense was an attack on this person/title.
This was the first document that formed a national government before the Constitution.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
American revolutionary soldiers used this type of warfare to defeat the British.
What is gorilla warfare?
This famous post-war rebellion began in 1786 when debt-ridden farmers protested against high taxes and economic injustice, attacking courts in western Massachusetts before being suppressed by a state militia. It was significant because it strengthened the movement for a new Constitution.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
What is the imposition of new taxes on the British North American colonies?
Under the Articles of Confederation, the United States central government had no power to do this.
What is levy taxes?
Anti-federalists refused to ratify the Constitution unless it included this.
This most contributed to the American victory in the Revolution.
What is French military and financial assistance?
This established the terms for settlement and admission of new states, and established the procedures by which territories could become states.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
The Proclamation of 1763 sought to limit colonial expansion west of this mountain range to prevent conflicts with American Indians on the colonial frontier.
What is the Appalachian Mountains?
Alexander Hamilton's financial program for the new nation was most favorable to this group.
Who are eastern merchants?
The Constitutional Convention designed this to insulate the presidency from the popular will.
What is the electoral college?
After the British General Burgoyne was defeated at this famous battle, France negotiated a treaty of alliance with the new American nation in 1778.
What is Saratoga?
President Adams enforced this controversial act (law) with the primary intention to intimidate critics of his foreign policy toward France and England.
What is the Sedition Act?
The Stamp Act enacted primarily for this purpose.
What is raise revenue to pay for British troops in the colonies?
This philosopher believed in a social contract through popular sovereignty. He believed that every person is entitled to natural rights: life, liberty and property.
Who is John Locke?
These were a compilation of anonymous editorials that appeared in New York newspapers to push for the ratification of the newly drafted constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers?
During the Revolutionary War, this group contributed to the cause of independence by collecting money, medicine, and food to supply the Continental Army.
Who were women?
What is republican mother?
The Haitian rebellion of the 1790's prompted this problem in the United States.
What is increased fear of slave revolts in the South?
This group was most likely to oppose the ratification of the Constitution in 177-1789.
Who are farmers in isolated areas?
The reserved powers that guarantee state's rights is found here in the Constitution.
What is the 10th Amendment?
By the time of the American Revolution, most patriots had come to believe that, in a republican government, sovereignty belonged to...
What is the people?
What is New Orleans?