Government
These two plans were offered at the Constitutional Convention of 1787.
What were the Virginia and New Jersey plans?
These people periodically tarred and feathered British tax collectors.
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
This individual was the first president of the United States.
Who was George Washington?
This text served as the first system of government for the United States.
What were the Articles of Confederation?
Each US state has this many senators.
What are two?
This is the number of states that were needed to ratify the Constitution.
What was nine?
The ________ Act forced colonists to house and feed British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
This Federalist later became the first Secretary of the Treasury of the United States.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
This term refers to the "principle that the authority of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people."
What is popular sovereignty?
This term refers to profitable agricultural products grown in the Americas in the 17th-19th centuries.
What were cash crops?
This term refers to a governmental system in which a strong central government exercises control over state governments.
What is federalism?
This Ordinance, adopted in 1787, created conditions for settlement in what would become Ohio.
What was the Northwest Ordinance?
These people signed contracts to work in the colonies for a set number of years; in exchange, their passage, room, and board were paid for.
Who were indentured servants?
Ideas circulated by ____________ thinkers influenced the authors of the Declaration of Independence.
What were Enlightenment thinkers?
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 prohibited this practice in any state created from the Northwest Territory.
These are the three branches of government in the United States.
What are the executive, legislative, and judicial branches?
This 'compromise' counted enslaved people for purposes of representation.
What was the 3/5 Compromise?
This man, of African and Native American descent, was the first person killed in the Boston Massacre.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
These people demanded that the Constitution contain an explicit list of rights and protections for the people.
Who were the anti-Federalists?
____________ are "immediate, first-hand accounts of a topic, from people who had a direct connection with it."
What are primary sources?
The first ten amendments to the Constitution are called this.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This act required colonists to pay a tax on most printed materials.
What was the Stamp Act?
This individual is considered to be the mother of the modern feminist movement.
Who was Mary Wollstonecraft?
This term refers to the exchange of raw materials and crops, weapons and finished goods, and enslaved people around the Atlantic.
What was the Triangle Trade?
These are the two major political parties in the United States today.
What are the Republican and Democratic parties?