Important people
First casualty of the American Revolution
Crispus Attucks
What 3 countries colonized the New World
Loyalist
What is the name of our first 10 amendments
Bill of Rights
What is a precedent
an example
Wrote the Declaration of Independence and was an anti-federalist
Thomas Jefferson
Explain religious persecution
getting in trouble for practicing a certain religion or not following a specific one
What event starts the American Revolution?
Boston Massacre
Right to a trial by jury
How many years was George Washington President?
8
Wrote Common Sense, a pamphlet used as propaganda to convince neutralists to become patriots.
Thomas Paine
Name 2 groups of people that came to the new world for religious freedom
Puritans and Pilgrims
The intolerable Acts were put in place as a response to what event?
Boston Tea Party
What was the name of America's first government? What event showed us this government was too weak?
Articles of Confederation. Shay's Rebellion
What was the name of Washington's speech before leaving office?
Farewell address
philosopher who gave ideas about representative government
John Locke
What did salutary neglect lead to?
Representative governments (will accept self government as well)
The name of the treaty that ended to American Revolution.
Treaty of Paris
What was the great compromise? (tell me what was combined, and what did it create)
The great compromise combined the Virginia and New Jersey plan. This compromise created a 2 house legislature (House of Representatives and Senate)
List 2 members of Washington's cabinet
Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson
French philosopher who came up with the idea of Separation of Powers.
Montesquieu
What led to the development of the transatlantic slave trade?
Plantations/farming in the colonies required cheap labor which led to plantation owners using slaves
Battle of Saratoga
The Northwest Ordinance created a process to do what?
Created a process on how to admit or add states into the U.S.
What 2 pieces of advice did Washington give in his farewell address?
Avoid political parties and stay neutral in foreign conflict