British Acts & Policies
What did the Stamp Act do and how did it affect colonial peoples?
What is.... direct taxation of all paper items on colonists, which led to many protests and bitter sentiments towards Parliament.
Who was the group supported by the French during the Revolutionary War?
what is...the Patriots
What was the 3/5ths Act?
what is...a way to count enslaved people as 3/5s of a person to organize population based representation
Federalists wanted a...
When was the Northwest Ordinance passed?
what is...1886
When was the Quartering Act established?
What were the main events that led to the American Revolution?
what is...Stamp Act, Quartering Act, Intolerable Acts, Committees of Correspondence, Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party
The Virginia Plan was favored by...
what is...big states
Anti-Federalists wanted a...
what is...power to the states
what is...west of the appalcahian mountains
What was the group of acts called including the Townshend Act?
what is...the Intolerable Acts
Who wrote pamphlets around Enlightenment thinking that inspired revolution?
who is...Thomas Paine
The NJ Plan was favored by...
what is...small states
The Alien and Sedition Acts were passed by which president?
who is...President Adams
what is....neglect
What is one thing the Sugar Act taxed?
what is...(coffee/wine/tea)
French support in the Revolutionary War was due to their want for...
what is...a desire to weaken GB
What was the Great Compromise?
what is...the creation of two houses, one based on sizes of state population and one where every state had equal representation.
George Washington was a...
what is...Federalist
what is....Spain
What were the 4 Intolerable Acts?
what is...Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Administration of Justice Act, and the Quartering Act.
When and where did the American Revolution end?
what is...at the Battle of Yorktown in 1781
What did Federalists want in a Constitution?
what is...a Bill of Rights
Under the new Constitution, the government split into how many branches?
what is...3
After the war, British land increased by x....
what is....x2