Colonial Life
This geographic feature served as the boundary for the Proclamation Line of 1763.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
This 1770 event was depicted in a famous, biased engraving by Paul Revere.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This was the name of the first, very weak national government of the United States.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
Signed in 1776, this document established the idea of "consent of the governed."
What is Thomas Paine's "Common Sense "
This 1st Amendment right allows you to protest or sign a document asking the government to change a law.
What is the Right to Petition
This was the primary cause of the massive decline in Native American populations after European arrival.
What are diseases (and superior technology)
This document argued it was "absurd" for a small island to rule a large continent.
What is Common Sense?
This group of essays was written to convince Americans to ratify the new Constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers?
This document is the "Supreme Law of the Land."
What is the Constitution
The 3rd Amendment stops the government from forcing you to house soldiers; this was a direct response to this British Act.
What is the Quartering Act
This economic system meant the 13 colonies existed mainly to provide raw materials to Great Britain.
What is Mercantilism?
Many colonists ignored the Proclamation of 1763 because they saw it as an abuse of this.
What is British Authority
This clause allows Congress to make all laws "necessary and proper," leading to fears of too much power.
What is the Elastic Clause?(Constitution can be flexible with changing times)
This was the purpose of the Federalist Papers.
What is to support the ratification of the Constitution?
This branch is the only one that can declare war and "stamps with the sanction of the constitution every possible law."
What is the Legislative Branch (Congress)?
New England’s economy relied on this geographic feature for shipbuilding and trade.
What are natural deep-water harbors
This British Captain claimed his soldiers only fired because the "mob" was threatening them with clubs.
Who is Captain Thomas Preston
Under the Articles of Confederation, this many "sovereign wills" (states) had to agree to get anything done.
What is 13
Alexander Hamilton described the Articles of Confederation as a "frail and tottering" what?
What is no central government
Under the 4th Amendment, the government cannot do this to your "persons, houses, papers, and effects" without a warrant.
What is Unreasonable Search and Seizure?
This is why the Southern colonies relied on enslaved labor more than the Northern colonies.
What is a warm climate and fertile soil
(for plantation farming)
These two acts (named in your test) were British taxes that angered colonists before the war.
What are the Stamp Act and Townshend Acts?
This system divides power between the national government and the state governments.
What is Federalism
If a document is created to influence people's emotions rather than show plain facts, it is called this.
What is propaganda
The President can use this power to reject a bill, but Congress can override it with a 2/3 vote.
What is a Veto?