The results of this conflict ended the period of salutary neglect and increased tensions between Britain and the colonists.
The French and Indian War
This compromise resolved the issue of slavery as it pertains to representation
The 3/5th Compromise
Anti-Federalists refused to consider ratifying the Constitution without the inclusion of this significant item
The Bill of Rights
The main author of the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson
Leader of the Continental Army
George Washington
This law required that a stamp be placed on all paper goods in the colonies, beginning the calls for taxation without representation.
The Stamp Act
The Great Compromise came out of a dispute between these two groups over this specific issue
large states and small states; representation
France lost Canadian colonies and claims to land east of the Mississippi River as a result of the signing of this
The Treaty of Paris of 1763
Taxes imposed in 1767 on imports of paper, paint, lead, glass & tea.
Townshend Acts
The "father of the constitution"
James Madison
This economic response on the part of the colonies led to the repeal of the Townshend Acts
Non-importation agreements
This group supported a stronger national government and ratifying the Constitution
The Federalists
After the American Victory at Saratoga, this country provided military and economic aid to the colonists, marking a turning point in the war.
France
The purpose of the Federalist Papers
Answer antifederalist criticisms of the Constitution
sentiment that revered women as homemakers, the cultivators of good civic values in young citizens
What is Republican motherhood
With the Proclamation Line of 1763, the British forbid American colonists from settling west of which natural barrier?
Appalachian Mountains
This movement included a range of ideas centered on the pursuit of happiness, sovereignty of reason, and the evidence of the senses as the primary sources of knowledge and advanced ideals such as liberty, progress, toleration, fraternity, constitutional government, and separation of church and state.
The Enlightenment
It was intended to eliminate the illegal sugar trade between the Spanish and French West Indies and the British colonies
The Sugar Act of 1764
This conflict demonstrated the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation and prompted the Constitutional Convention
What is Shays' Rebellion
Largely ignoring the regulation and commerce of the colonies is called
Salutary neglect
This 1787 law provided a method for admitting new states to the Union from the territory, and prohibited slavery within those states.
The Northwest Ordinance
This pamphlet was influential in convincing many Americans that the colonies should declare their independence from Britain
Common Sense
Small state proposal put forth during the Philadelphia convention proposing equal representation by state, regardless of population in a unicameral legislature.
What is The New Jersey Plan
This small uprising showed the power of the new government, under the Constitution, when the uprising was ended quickly.
Whiskey Rebellion
This Supreme Court Ruling created the concept of Judicial Review, the judiciary has the power to eliminate laws it deems unconstitutional
Marbury v. Madison