Colonial Protests
Name one of the three methods colonists used to protest the Stamp Act.
What is boycotting British goods? (or harassing British officials, or organizing secret resistance groups)
Which battles did the Continental Army win that boosted morale and French trust?
What are Trenton and Saratoga?
What were three questions Americans had to address about the new government after the Revolution?
Who should participate in government? Would government allow slavery? How should government answer to the people?
Name one accomplishment of the Articles of Confederation.
What is providing for surveying land west of the original 13 states? (or establishing procedure for territories to become states)
What was the “Three-Fifths Compromise”?
What is three-fifths of a state’s slaves counted toward population for representation in the House of Representatives?
Why were committees of correspondence established?
What is to communicate with other colonies about threats to liberty?
How did the British change their war strategy after Saratoga?
What is they decided to keep their soldiers along the coast?
Why did leaders favor a republic over a democracy after the Revolution?
What is they feared giving the people too much power?
Name one weakness of the Articles of Confederation.
What is failure to regulate interstate and international trade or experienced difficulties in challenging foreign power?
What decision was made about the slave trade at the Philadelphia Convention?
What is congress could end the slave trade after twenty years?
Which act required colonists to purchase special paper for legal documents?
What is the Stamp Act?
Number these events in chronological order: British control of NYC, Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga, British capture Philadelphia, Washington wins at Trenton, Continental Army wins at Princeton.
1: British control NYC, 2: Washington wins at Trenton, 3: Continental Army wins at Princeton, 4: British capture Philadelphia, 5: Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga.
What did the Great Compromise establish?
What is the Senate and the House of Representatives?
Under federalism, which level of government regulates interstate trade?
What is national power?
What power did Congress NOT have under the Articles of Confederation?
What is the power to tax individuals?
Which act authorized British commanders to house soldiers in vacant homes?
What is the Quartering Act?
What justification did Thomas Jefferson provide for revolt in the Declaration of Independence?
What is forming a government that would uphold unalienable rights of the people?
Why did the Articles of Confederation have difficulty enforcing laws?
What is because all 13 states had to approve an act for it to become law?
Under federalism, which level of government supervises education?
What is state power?
Which act cut colonial merchants out of the tea trade?
What is the Tea Act?
What question did the Treaty of Paris leave unanswered?
What is when the British would evacuate American forts? (or boundaries of the new nation, or British creditors collecting debts)
Why did many people demand a Bill of Rights be added before ratification?
What is to protect individual liberties?
Which powers are shared under federalism?
What is establishing courts, taxing individual incomes?