British Acts
This law required that all paper products in the colonies have stamps affixed to them signifying that a required tax had been paid.
What is the Stamp Act?
This significant figure was first known for his strategic loss of battles and his term as the first President of the United States
Who is George Washington?
This revolt (1765–1773) consisted of the Thirteen Colonies revolting against the British Empire and establishing the United States of America.
What is the American Revolution?
This document announced the colonies’ official separation from the British Crown. This served as the founding document of the United States.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This idealogy determined that enslaved persons in the South would be counted as three-fifths of a person in the population.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
This 1764 law raised the previous amount demanded on sweeteners.
What is the Sugar Act?
This figure was the ruler of Great Britain and Ireland from 1760 to 1820. He was the ruler of this empire during the time of the American Revolution.
Who is King George III?
This conflict consisted of Britain and France alongside their respective colonial and native allies, fighting for control of North America east of the Mississippi.
What is the French and Indian War?
This document was the first constitution of the U.S., drafted alongside the Declaration of Independence. It was later deemed unsatisfactory due to the limited power it gave to the federal government.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This idea stated that a government’s power should be divided into multiple branches that balance and check each other. This derived from an enlightenment concept advocated by Montesquieu.
What is the Separation of Powers?
This 1765 act of Parliament required colonial citizens to provide room and board for British soldiers stationed in America.
What is the Quartering Act?
This Founding Father invented bifocals, the lightning rod, and the swivel chair.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This 18-month-long conflict with the American Indians of the Ohio Valley (The Ottawa People). This resulted in the Proclamation of 1763.
What is Pontiac’s Rebellion?
This pamphlet used logic through Enlightenment philosophy and was written and published in January 1776 by Thomas Paine. The document detailed why colonists should detach from the British Crown.
What is Common Sense?
This proposed idea called for equal representation for states in a singular legislative body, regardless of the number of citizens per state.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
These acts imposed harsher taxes on the merchants of imported goods such as glass, paper, and tea.
What are the Townshend Acts?
This figure is an English-born political activist in the American and French Revolutions. He authored the article "Common Sense", which detailed reasons to defy the Royal Crown.
Who is Thomas Paine?
This term encompasses two battles fought 18 days apart in the Autumn of 1777. News of the American victory led to the introduction of French aid.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This treaty officially ended the American Revolutionary War in 1783.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This concept majority highlighted decisions to be made under a vote count greater than one-half, typically two-thirds.
What is a Supermajority?
This act limited the use of colonial paper money to protect British merchants from depreciation.
What is the Currency Act?
This figure led to the British response to Pontiac’s Rebellion. They served as military governor of Massachusetts (1774–1775) to enforce the Intolerable Acts.
Who is Thomas Gage?
This battle was known as the final conflict of the Northwest Indian War. The end of the battle led to the creation of the Treaty of Greenville.
What is the Battle of Fallen Timbers?
This open letter penned by George Washington in 1797 consisted of warnings against government parties and interfering with foreign conflicts.
What is the Washington Farewell Address?
This form of democracy is in which the people directly vote on matters of policy, rather than electing delegates to decide for them as in representative democracy.
What is Direct Democracy?