People
Wrote: Common Sense
Who is Thomas Paine?
The Tax that caused a riot and taught Americans that group action was powerful.
What is the Stamp Act?
Why was the French Indian war important?
It caused the British to Tax the Colonists.
What are the Articles of Confederation and why did they fail?
The first form of our constitution and they failed because they left the central government weak
Freedoms of Speech, Press, Assembly, and Petition
First Amendment
Which colonies were the most economically successful and had the most diverse population?
The Middle Colonies
Commander of Colonial Army and 1st president
Who is George Washington?
A snowball fight turned riot that left 5 colonists shot to death, one of which was a black sailor.
What is the Boston Massacre?
What was the rallying cry for the colonists during the American Revolution?
No taxation without representation!
What were 3 main problems that occurred after the American Revolution that lead the founding fathers to write the constitution?
The National government could not: make laws, tax the states & or enforce the repayment of war debts.
Rights of the Accused and right to due process of the law.
Fifth Amendment
Why did the Puritans migrate to New England?
To escape religious persecution and find religious freedom
English philosopher spoke of natural rights and human reason
Who is John Locke?
Disguised as Mohawk Indians, the colonists dumped three ships worth of Tea imports into the water to protest taxes.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
How did the Enlightenment specifically influence the founding fathers?
It inspired the founding fathers to challenge the English Monarchy and then create a new form of government based on the will of the people.
What issue did the Great Compromise resolve?
How the issue of how the states would be represented in the legislature by both population in the house of representatives and equally in the senate.
Protections from illegal search of your property and & any seizures of your property without a court order.
Fourth Amendment
Why did the British Government value its colonial empire?
Abundant natural resources such as corn, cotton, tobacco, & timber, made the empire more powerful and wealthy with in the triangle of trade.
Father of Constitution
Who is James Madison?
Eighteenth-century intellectual movement during which European philosophers came to believe that all philosophers came to believe that all problems could be solved by reason.
What is the Enlightenment?
What did the 2nd Continental Congress decide to do about the already strained British-Colonial relationship?
They decided raise a Continental Army, form an independent government, and break with England.
What is the difference between a federalist and an anti-federalist?
Federalist is for the constitution and an anti-federalist wanted more protections for citizens added to the constitution.
Protects against the government lodging troops in private homes.
Third Amendment
How did Britain’s colonial policy of salutary neglect eventually lead to hostile relationship between colonists & Parliament?
Colonists were used to governing themselves & resisted Parliament’s authority increasing taxes.
American Farmer led a rebellion against new government and forced federal reform?
Who is Daniel Shays?
A written list of freedoms guaranteed to citizens by the government.
What is the Bill of Rights?
What was the purpose for writing and sending the Declaration of Independence?
To break with England and form our own country
What did Anti-federalists demand be added to the constitution in order to approve it?
The Bill of Rights
Protects Americans right to bear arms and form militias.
Second Amendment
What was the first successful colony established in the new world?
Jamestown
The founding Father who wrote the Preamble.
Gouvernor Morris
The tax on Tea, cloth, and other manufactured goods that led to a colonial boycott on British goods.
How did the Proclamation of 1763 affect British-Colonial Relations?
It kept Colonists from being able to settle lands newly won in the French Indian War.
Please identify the document, its meaning, and how it creates our American identity.
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
The Preamble of the Constitution
Powers Reserved for the States
Tenth Amendment
How did the arrival of Europeans affect Native American culture?
Thousands of Native Americans died from European diseases.
The Son of Liberty Member who engraved the piece of Propaganda that vilified the British Army's actions. He is also most famous for saying: "The British are coming!"
Paul Revere
System in which each branch of the government has the power to monitor and limit the actions of the other branches.
Checks and Balances
Ultimately what issue motivated the Colonists to break with England
Who would rule the Colonies, the King or the Colonists themselves.
Please Identify this Document:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
The Declaration of Independence
Right to a speedy & public trial.
Sixth Amendment
Why would Europeans take a risk and settle in the New World?
Freedom from religious persecution.
To find natural resources & explore new lands.
The chance for a better life