French and Indian War
This territory was claimed by both the French and the British and conflict here ultimately led to the French and Indian War.
What was the Ohio River Valley?
Period of Britain not enforcing laws on the colonist
What is salutary neglect?
Adopted on July 4, 1776, this document announced that the 13 American colonies were free and independent from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This agreement created a two-house Congress with representation based on population in the House and equal representation for each state in the Senate.
What was the Great Compromise?
In 1770, British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists in Boston, killing five people and increasing tensions between Britain and the colonies.
What was the Boston Massacre?
This conflict in Massachusetts was about exorbitant tax increases that caused mobs of angry farmers to close the courts to prevent foreclosure on their farms.
What was the Shay's Rebellion?
This agreement counted enslaved people as part of a state's population for representation in Congress and direct taxation.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise
British law prohibited colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
These laws punished the colonists of Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party by closing Boston Harbor and limiting self-government.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
Meeting brought representatives from nine colonies together to protest the Stamp Act and argue that the colonists should not be taxed without representation.
What was the Stamp Act Congress?
This established the banning of slavery in the future states
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1784.
This plan at the Constitutional Convention proposed a two-house legislature with representation based on population in the lower house and members of the upper house chosen through state legislatures.
What is the Virginia plan?
Benjamin Franklin proposed this 1754 plan to unite the colonies under one central government for defense against the French.
What is the Albany Plan of Union
This political slogan became a rallying cry for colonial resistance to British revenue laws
What was “No taxation without representation”
These 1767 British laws taxed imported goods such as glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea, leading colonists to organize boycotts.
What were the Townshend Acts
Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress had only one of these, unlike today’s Congress, which has two.
What is a unicameral legislature?
This system prevents any one branch of the federal government from becoming too powerful by allowing each branch to limit the power of the others.
What are checks and balances
In July 1754, George Washington’s forces were defeated by the French and forced to surrender at this battle, an early conflict of the French and Indian War.
What was the Battle of Fort Necessity?
This future president defended the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre, arguing they deserved a fair trial.
What is John Adams
These groups of colonists protested British taxes by enforcing boycotts of British goods and sometimes destroying property belonging to British officials.
Who were the Sons and Daughters of Liberty?
This 1787 meeting was held in secrecy in Philadelphia so delegates could openly debate changes to the Articles of Confederation.
What was the Constitutional Convention
These people feared that a consolidated republic would threaten state sovereignty and individual liberties without explicit constitutional protections.
What are the Anti-Federalist