Before the Revolution
This event was heavily propagandized to inspire the colonists to support revolution.
What is the Boston (bloody) Massacre?
This is the man that established the Supreme Court as a co-equal branch of government.
Who is John Marshall?
A group of people that advocated for passing the new Constitution.
Who are the Federalists?
The form of Government the United States becomes.
What is a Democratic Republic?
This event marked the first rebellion of colonists in the New World over not being allowed to push the Natives out of Virginia.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
Series of acts passed the British in response to Boston Tea Party.
What are the intolerable acts?
The Case that established Judicial Review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
The guiding document that created the initial government of the United States that was particularly weak.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
The policy of Great Britain prior to the French and Indian war of letting the colonies govern themselves.
What is Salutary Neglect?
The first battles of the Revolution.
What is Lexington and Concord?
This document is the formal breaking up of the colonies from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This case used the elastic clause to determine it was constitutional to build a national bank and that no state could tax the federal government.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
These were a series of essays written under pseudonym to argue against the new constitution.
The main rallying cry for colonists who disagreed with the taxes being imposed on them.
What is No Taxation without Representation?
The last major battle of the American Revolution.
What is the Battle of Yorktown.
This war was fought over the Ohio River Valley between two European powerhouses.
What is the French and Indian War?
This case reinforced the supremacy clause of the constitution.
What is Gibbons v. Ogden?
These essays were written by John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton to defend the new constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers?
The institution of unpaid labor.
What is Slavery?
This gentleman was once a general for the British army, then for the colonial army, was chosen to lead the constitutional convention.
Who is George Washington?
The border that was set up that reserved land for Natives and prohibited the colonists from moving west.
What is the proclamation line of 1763
This power granted to the court allows the court to check the powers of the president and congress.
What is Judicial Review?
These two men who worked in the same cabinet often disagreed on the role of government.
Who are Hamilton and Jefferson?
Not just a phrase to show something that people should know without studying but is also a book by Thomas Paine.
What is Common Sense?
This rebellion of farmers in Massachusetts showed the weaknesses of the federal government and inspired the constitutional convention.
What is Shay's Rebellion?