Acting It Out
It was the first direct tax applied to the colonies by Parliament...though it was eventually repealed.
STAMP ACT
Again, there is no liberty, if the judiciary power be not separated from the legislative and executive. Were it joined with the legislative, the life and liberty of the subject would be exposed to arbitrary control; for the judge would be then the legislator.
Montesquieu
Jefferson argued that the only reason government existed at all was to "Secure" these...
Unalienable Rights
If not for this event, we might never have found ourselves in Philadelphia in 1787 to begin with...
Shays' Rebellion
The first government system of the United States, created back in 1775
Articles of Confederation
Meant to strictly control British Colonial trade, it outlawed the transportation of English goods on non-English ships, among other things.
Navigation Acts
“Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.”
John Locke
King George III
The balance of power between _______ & _________ took center stage at the Convention.
State & Federal
Ironically it was deliberately designed this way, but our first government failed because it could not collect THESE from the States.
Taxes
Our 3rd Amendment is based upon it today...it allowed British soldiers to board themselves in the homes of colonists.
Quartering Act
The Enlightenment had a large impact on this important early-American document
Declaration of Independence
Jefferson declared that the American people hold THESE truths to be self-evident
All Men are Created Equal
They have unalienable rights
Governments exist only to protect rights
This plan called for a 3 branch system, Bicameral Congress, and representation to be done entirely by State Populations
Virginia Plan
They emerged as an early political group that advocated for creating a more federally-powerful system of government.
Federalists
Closed the port of Boston, disbanded the Massachusetts colonial government, banned all colonial courts of law.
Intolerable/Coercive Acts
The Enlightenment often seen as a rejection of ____________ thought in favor of Rational thought.
Religious
Jefferson indicated his vision for 13 separate American nations (states) by leaving THIS WORD uncapitalized...
united
Southerners got this compromise pushed through, evidence of it can be seen in looking at 4 of our first 5 presidents.
3/5 Compromise
He led a Rebellion of angry, Revolutionary-War veteran farmers in response to the state of Massachusetts trying to seize his farm.
Daniel Shays
Named after the man who devised them, these laws taxed paper, glass, paint, and Tea.
Many of them were eventually repealed, except the tax on Tea
Townshend Acts
This Enlightenment philosopher’s advocacy for freedom of speech and religion was central to his works, famously stating, “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
Voltaire
Jefferson reminds THEM that they, too have ignored the American Colonists...and that they are now at war with us.
The British Citizens
Electoral College, 270
Congress banned slavery HERE in 1787
Northwest Territories