Vocabulary
When a taxing authority imposes a financial obligation on its citizen.
What is taxation
Number of colonies in America
What are the 13 colonies
By 1776, American colonists were divided into three groups
What is Neutral, loyalists, and patriots
AOC stands for which document
What is Article of Confederation
In 1753, who fought the British over settlements in the Ohio River Valley?
Who are the French
A government that has two-house legislative system
What is bicameral
Name the categories colonies were divided into by location
What are New England Colonies, Mid Atlantic Colonies, and Southern Colonies
This is where the Revolutionary War began
What is Lexington and Concord
BOR stands for which document
What is the Bill of Rights
According to the Declaration of Independence, what is self-evident?
What is all men are created equal
A system that allows each branch of government to amend/veto acts of another branch to prevent another branch from having too much power.
What is checks and balances
Name one New England colony
What is Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, or Rhode Island.
The forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World.
What is the Middle Passage
The date the Declaration of Independence was adopted
What is July 4, 1776
Which group felt the colonists did not need independence?
What are loyalist
A series of religious revivals in American christian history
What is the Great Awakening
Name two Mid Atlantic colonies
What is Pennsylvania, Delaware, New York, or New Jersey
This battle was the turning point of the American Revolution
What is the Battle of Saratoga
This document allowed territorial growth to new states
What is the Northwest Ordinance
According to the Declaration of Independence, who gives men natural laws?
What is God
A compromise where every 5 enslaved people counted as 3 in the states population
What is the 3/5 Compromise
Name the five Southern colonies
What is Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia
Put the following American documents in order chronologically
Bill of Rights
Declaration of Independence
Articles of Confederation
Constitution
What is the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights
The document replaced the Article of Confederation
The United States Constitution
A group of Patriots that protested British laws.
Who were the Sons of Liberty