vocabulary
Events leading to declaration
Government
Government
100

This part of the government makes the laws.

legislative branch

100
This happened when the colonists starting expanding westward and the French didn't want them on their land.
What is the french and Indian War?
100

The second part of the Declaration Of Independence talks about this.

what is life liberty and pursuit of happiness
100

An English policy of not strictly enforcing laws in its colonies

what is salutary neglect

200
This is a tax on imported goods
What is a duty?
200

The king made this act to help the colonists pay for the war dept. They had to put them on printed materials

What is stamp act?

200
The complaints in the Declaration fo Independence are called this
What are grievances?
200

2nd Amendment

right to bear arms

300
To refuse to purchase certain products
What is a boycott?
300
This act put a new tax on tea, glass, lead, paints and paper but all were repealed except for the tax on tea.
What are the townshend acts?
300

What were the Articles of Confederation?

The first written plan for government in the United States. It was the first Constitution.

300

5th amendment

What amendment guarantees you have the "right to remain silent"- the rights of an accused person  

400

Treaty of Paris 1783

Ended the Revolutionary War

400
These acts were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists after the tea party. The colonists called them the intolerable acts.
What are the coercive acts?
400
The beginning part of the constitution is called this
What is the preamble?
400

10th Amendment

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.



500

No taxation without representation

reflected the colonists' belief that they should not be taxed because they had no direct representatives in Parliament

500
This was not a tax on tea but required colonists to buy tea only from the British East India Company.
What is the tea act?
500

Representative Democracy

A form of government where citizens choose people to represent them.

500

1st Amendment

Freedom of Religion, Speech, Press, Assembly, and Petition



600

Constitution

A document which spells out the principles by which a government runs and the fundamental laws that govern a society 


600
Amendment


A change to the Constitution



600

Weaknesses under the Articles of Confederation?

Congress could not tax or regulate trade between the states. There was no executive.

600

Judicial Branch



interprets laws - supreme court

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