Road to Revolution
This war between Britain and France left Britain in debt and led to new colonial taxes.
What is the French and Indian War?
This event involved colonists dumping tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
What were the first two political parties?
Democratic Republicans and Federalists
This document created a weak national government after independence.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
These are the branches of the federal government
"That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown".
Declaration of Independence
This policy restricted colonial settlement west of the Appalachians.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
These British laws punished Massachusetts after the Tea Party.
What are the Coercive (Intolerable) Acts?
This 1794 rebellion tested the new federal government’s ability to enforce laws and collect taxes.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
This rebellion exposed the weaknesses of that government.
What is Shays’ Rebellion?
Which group would have agreed with this statement: “Energy in the Executive is a leading character in the definition of good government.”
Federalists
“Small islands, not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.”
This act taxed printed materials and sparked “no taxation without representation.”
What is the Stamp Act?
Fighting began with these two battles in 1775.
What are Lexington and Concord?
Which founding father proposed a national bank, federal assumption of state debts, and policies to promote manufacturing?
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
This 1787 meeting led to the creation of a new Constitution.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
What is this idea representing in the Constitution: "It is necessary that by the arrangement of things, power checks power"
Checks and balances, separation of powers
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If perticuliar care and attention is not paid to the Laidies we are determined to foment a Rebelion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.
Abigail Adams, "Remember the ladies" letter to John Adams
This protest group organized resistance to British taxation policies.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
This pamphlet pushed many colonists toward independence.
What is Common Sense?
These 1798 laws, passed by Federalists, limited dissent and targeted immigrants, sparking debates over free speech and states’ rights.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
This compromise created a two-house legislature.
What is the Great (Connecticut) Compromise?
Who likely said this: "...man being born, as has been proved, with a title to perfect freedom... hath by nature a power, not only to preserve his property, that is, his life, liberty and estate...".
John Locke
These quotes are likely from what:
"If men were angels, no government would be necessary."
"Ambition must be made to counteract ambition."
Federalist Papers
This 1774 meeting united colonies in response to the Intolerable Acts.
What is the First Continental Congress?
This document justified independence using Enlightenment ideals.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This 1794 treaty with Britain avoided war but was widely criticized by Democratic-Republicans as too favorable to the British.
What is Jay's Treaty?
This compromise reflected sectional tensions over slavery and representation.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people"
What group of people likely would have said this?
Anti-federalist
"We beg leave further to assure your Majesty that notwithstanding the sufferings of your loyal colonists during the course of the present controversy, our breasts retain too tender a regard for the kingdom from which we derive our origin to request such a reconciliation as might in any manner be inconsistent with her dignity or her welfare."
Olive Branch petition
This conflict with Native Americans in the Ohio River Valley convinced the British that they needed to limit colonial movement westward.
What is Pontiac's Rebellion
“That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it.” What Enlightenment idea does this passage from the Declaration reflect?
What is social contract theory. Government exists to protect people's rights, and the people can change or overthrow a government that fails to do so.
What two things did Washington warn against in his farewell address?
Political parties and foreign entanglements (allying with foreign countries)
A critic of the proposed Constitution argues, “A distant national government may become too powerful and threaten individual liberties.” Which group would most likely agree, and what protection did they demand?
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
"The choice of SEVERAL, to form an intermediate body of electors, will be much less apt to convulse the community with any extraordinary or violent movements, than the choice of ONE who was himself to be the final object of the public wishes."
What is this quote likely referring to?
Argued that states could challenge federal laws they considered unconstitutional, in response to the Alien and Sedition Acts.
Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions