British/Colonist
British solution to there French and Indian war debt.
What is taxing colonies
Was a proposal by Virginia delegates for a bicameral legislative branch. The plan was drafted by James Madison while he waited for a quorum to assemble at the Constitutional Convention of 1787.
What is the Virginia plan
Incident in which 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company were thrown from ships into Boston Harbor by American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians.
What is the Boston Tea Party
The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used.
Boston colonists, disguised as Indians, threw the contents of several hundred chests of tea into the harbor as a protest against British taxes on tea
Was a proposal for the structure of the United States Government presented by William Paterson at the Constitutional Convention on June 15, 1787.
What is the New Jersey plan
Published in January 1776, He argued for two main points: (1) independence from England and (2) the creation of a democratic republic.
What is common sense.
Boston Tea Party was organized and carried out by a group of Patriots led by Samuel Adams
Was an agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States.
What is the Connecticut Compromise
The purpose of lowering the tax on molasses was to induce importers to buy molasses from British colonies instead of smuggling it from competing French and Spanish colonies
What is the sugar act
All of the colonists thought the British Parliament shouldn't have the right to tax them.
American Patriots for a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party.
The population of slaves would be counted as three-fifths in total when apportioning Representatives, as well as Presidential electors and taxes.
What is the 3/5 Compromise
The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. Ship's papers, legal documents, licenses, newspapers, other publications, and even playing cards were taxed.
Representative came together to form a statement protesting against the Stamp Act.
value of the more than 92,000 pounds of tea dumped into the Boston Harbor would be around $1 million.
A formal declaration of the legal and civil rights of the citizens of any state, country, federation
What is the Bill of Rights