Historical context + Causes
Acts and Amendments
Effects
Important People
Federalism
100

This period ended in 1763 after the British decided to reinforce the Navigation Acts.

What is salutary neglect?

100

This act placed a tax on most printed paper in the colonies.

What is the Stamp Act?

100

This group of people believed that a strong central government, proposed by the constitution, would limit democracy.

Who are the Anti-federalists?
100

This person was commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.

George Washington

100
America's first bank

What is the Bank of the United States?

200

This war led to a period of salutary neglect ending in the American colonies.

What is the French and Indian War?

200

This act required the colonists to provide food and living quarters for British soldiers stationed in the colonies.

What is the Quartering Act?

200

The idea that women should be educated about politics in order to educate their children about it.

What is the Republican Motherhood?

200

This Enlightenment thinker influenced the American Revolution with his ideas about natural rights and the social contract.

Who is John Locke?

200

These three branches of government separated federal powers.

What are the legislative, executive, and judicial branches?

300

King George dismissed this document that pledged loyalty and requested protection of colonial rights.

What is the Olive Branch Petition?

300

This act asserted that the parliament had the right to tax and make laws for the colonies.

What is the Declaratory Act?

300

This armed uprising in Massachusetts was a result of debt crisis after the Revolutionary War.

What is Shay's Rebellion?

300

This Founding Father argued that the Constitution did not give the congress the power to create a bank.

Who is Thomas Jefferson?

300

Hamilton argued for a national bank by taking broader view of which part of the Constitution.

What is the "necessary and proper" clause?

400

Benjamin Franklin's plan for intercolonial government and defense

The Albany Plan of Union

400

In this act, British government organized Canadian land gained from France.

What is the Quebec Act?

400
This early US law placed the federal government in control of all legal actions regarding Native Americans.

 What is the Indian Intercourse Act?

400

This diplomat secured the alliance between France and the American colonies during the Revolutionary War.

Who is Benjamin Franklin?

400
Founding Father who switched from Federalism to Anti-federalism

Who is James Madison?

500

British government prohibited colonists from settling west of the Appalachians through this declaration.

What is the Proclamation of 1763?

500

In this act, Parliament declared that the colonies were in rebellion with Britain.

What is the Prohibitory Act?

500

In this event, American delegates refused bribes from French ministers in negotiations during the French Revolution.

The XYZ affair

500

French minister who broke all the rules of diplomacy by appealing directly to the American to support the French Revolution

Who is "Citizen" Edmond GenĂȘt?

500

a series of essays that urged the ratification of the Constitution

What are The Federalist Papers?

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