Conflicts and Protests
Colonists dressed as Native Americans boarded a British merchant ship and dumped their tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
As a response to the Intolerable Acts, this meeting was arranged in 1774 where colonial leaders managed to urge their colonies to expand military reserves and organize boycotts of British goods.
What is the First Continental Congress?
A founding Father who wrote the Declaration of the Independence and was the first Secretary of State.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
The first 10 Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
a number of restrictive laws passed by the British Parliament in response to the Boston Tea Party
What are the Intolerable Acts?
A war between Britain and France with their Native American allies in which the two sides fought for control for North America east of the Mississippi River.
What is the French and Indian War?
Published by Thomas Paine in 1776, this pamphlet used Enlightenment philosophy to argue that the British should not continue with their unjust rule of the colonies.
What is Common Sense?
Founding Father from Virginia. Known as the “Father of the Constitution” for his role in drafting it and the Bill of Rights. He contributed to the Federalist Papers and co-founded the Democratic-Republican Party.
Who was James Madison?
A group that supported a central government that could protect their economic status; a group that was wary of centralization and infringements upon liberties, especially when it came to taxation
Who are the Federalists and Anti-Federalists?
lowered the price of tea, but granted the British East India Company Tea a monopoly on tea sales in the American colonies so colonists refused to purchase any tea
What was the Tea Act?
A crowd of colonists who were angered by the Quartering Act, harassed the British troops guarding a local customs house in Boston. The guards fired upon the crowd, killing five and wounding six protesters.
What is the Boston Massacre?
The treaty which officially ended the American Revolutionary War.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
A British philosopher who theorized that natural rights challenged the absolute and divine rule of kings and queens. Asserting that all men should be ruled by natural laws, and that sovereignty was derived from the governed and their will.
Who was John Locke?
A declaration of neutrality in the ongoing conflicts between Britain and France resulting from the French Revolution.
What is the Proclamation of Neutrality?
established guidelines for a state to become a state: territories with at least 60,000 people could apply. If accepted by Congress, the new state would have equal status with other states. It also banned slavery North of the Ohio River Valley
What was the Northwest Ordinance?
Let by a chief of a Native American tribe. This conflict lasted 18 months in which Natives attacked British colonial settlements from the Great Lakes to Virginia and resulted in the Proclamation of 1763.
What is Pontiac's Rebellion?
An assembly of representatives from the 13 colonies who passed the Declaration of Independence and Articles of Confederation.
What is the Second Continental Congress?
A founding father. He encouraged his fellow leaders to insist that Virginians be taxed only by Virginians. "Give me liberty or give me death!"
Who is Patrick Henry?
equal representation in the legislative branch, regardless of the number of citizens of a state
What is the New Jersey Plan?
implemented a tariff on imports where Northerners preferred a higher rate while southerners preferred a lower rate
What was the Tariff Act
A revolt in Massachusetts over taxes and debt collectors led by Daniel Shay which kick started the Constitutional Convention
What is Shay's Rebellion?
Two battles fought 18 days apart in 1777. The British were eventually forced to retreat. News of the American victory led to the help of France on the part of the colonies and changed the ties of the war.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
He was a founding father and inventor. Created bifocals, the lightning rod. Signed the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Bejamin Franklin?
slaves in the South were counted as counted as three-fifths of a person
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
system where settlers could purchase land in the west and required new townships to set aside a parcel of land reserved for public education
What was the Land Ordinance?