British Laws & Taxes
This act taxed sugar and molasses.
What is the Sugar Act?
Colonists dumped tea into this harbor in protest.
What is Boston Harbor?
$100$200$300$400$500Thomas Paine wrote this pamphlet encouraging independence.
What is Common Sense?
This was the first constitution of the United States.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This man led the rebellion in Massachusetts.
Who is Daniel Shays?
This act taxed newspapers and legal documents.
What is the Stamp Act?
This protest happened in 1773 against the Tea Act.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This document declared the colonies free from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Under the Articles, most power stayed with these governments
What are state governments?
Farmers protested these during the rebellion.
What are high taxes and debt?
These laws controlled colonial trade.
What are the Navigation Acts?
Britain punished colonists with these harsh laws after the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
Thomas Jefferson mainly wrote this important document.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Congress could not do this important thing under the Articles.
What is collect taxes?
Many farmers were losing this during Shays’ Rebellion.
What is their land?
This act allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to colonies.
What is the Tea Act?
Colonists were angry because this proclamation stopped settlement west of the Appalachians.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This philosopher influenced Jefferson with ideas about natural rights.
Who is John Locke?
The Articles created no leader to enforce laws.
What is a president?
Shays’ Rebellion showed weaknesses in this government system.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
Colonists used this slogan to protest British taxes.
What is “No taxation without representation”?
This war led Britain to issue the Proclamation of 1763.
What is the French and Indian War?
These rights include life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
What are natural rights?
The national government was considered too this to solve problems.
What is weak?
This important document was written partly because of Shays’ Rebellion.
What is the U.S. Constitution?