NA/ Colonies
This 1620 document was the first framework of government written and enacted in the territory that is now the United States of America.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This British policy of loosely enforcing trade regulations in the colonies ended after the French and Indian War.
What is salutary neglect?
This pamphlet, written by Thomas Paine, put forth simple arguments for the colonies to break away from Great Britain.
What is "Common Sense?"
This amendment protects your right against self-incrimination. (You have the right to remain silent!)
What is the 5th Amendment?
This exceptional Constitutional compromise framed our existing legislative branch.
What is the Great Compromise?
This term refers to the harrowing trans-Atlantic journey of enslaved Africans to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
The Proclamation of 1763 forbade colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains, land the British had just won in this armed conflict.
What is the French and Indian/ Seven Years War?
In 1776 wrote the words "we hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal."
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This 1786 uprising in Massachusetts highlighted the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation and led to calls for a stronger central government.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
This document established the United States government as a "firm league of friendship."
What is the Articles of Confederation?
This system led to increased indentured servants, consisting of immigrants of lower classes from England to America.
What is the headright system?
This religious movement in the colonies emphasized individual piety and a personal connection to God, challenging traditional authority.
What is the Great Awakening?
This 1777 battle is considered the turning point of the Revolutionary War because it convinced France to support the American cause.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This term refers to the group that opposed the ratification of the Constitution, arguing for individual rights and state power.
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
The presidential power to cancel a bill passed by both houses of Congress is called this.
What is veto power?
John Winthrop used this phrase to describe the Puritans' expectation that their colony would be a model Christian society for the world to see.
What is a “City Upon a Hill”?
This act lowered the tax on molasses while increasing consequences for smugglers.
What is the Sugar Act?
The present-day state (colony at the time) where the Valley Forge winter encampment took place.
What is Pennsylvania?
The President of the Constitutional Convention of 1787.
Who is George Washington?
This concept refers to the British argument that Parliament represented all British subjects, including colonists, even if they didn't vote for members.
What is Virtual Representation?
This armed rebellion in 1676 was led by a Virginia planter caused a labor shift from servitude to slavery.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
This 1766 act revoked the Stamp Act, but asserted the British right to legislate for taxation.
What is the Declaratory Act?
In Hamilton the musical, they sing "The World Turned Upside Down!" (and "Freedom for America! Freedom for France!") after the decisive victory at this battle.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
The term for flexible reading of the Constitution, giving considerable weight to modern values and social consequences and precedents.
What is loose construction or interpretivism?
This notable clause gives Congress the "elastic" flexibility to carry out necessary laws through "implied powers."
What is the necessary and proper clause?
("make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this constitution.")