A tax on all printed paper materials (such as playing cards)
What is the Stamp Act?
America's birthday (give the full date)
What is July 4th, 1776?
True or False: The Articles of Confederation had a STRONG central government
What is false?
Famous Federalists who has a play about his life
Who is Hamilton?
Type of government where the people directly make decisions about the government
What is a direct democracy (democracy)?
How governments are organized
What is a system of government?
Required colonist to house and feed British soldiers
What is the Quartering Act?
Author of the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
True or False: The Articles lacked central leadership, including a President or Executive Branch
What is true?
The group that advocated for the ratification (approval) of the U.S. Constitution
Who are the Federalists?
The type of government the United States is
What is a Republic?
System where power is shared between central and state governments
What is a federal system of government?
Event that lead to the implementation of the Intolerable Acts
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The 3 unalienable rights
What are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
Document that replaced the Articles of Confederation
What is the U.S. Constitution?
The group that opposed the U.S. Constitution and advocated for the addition of the Bill of Rights
Who are the Anti-federalists?
What is an autocracy?
System where the states hold most of the power
What is a confederal system?
Someone who wants to remain a British citizen
What is a loyalist?
What the people should do if the government breaks the social contract
What is alter or abolish the government?
(other answers: revolt, fight back, protect, ect.)
Event that exposed the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation
What was Shay's Rebellion?
The first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution designed to protect citizen's individual rights
What is the Bill of Rights?
What is a Theocracy?
System where a strong central government holds all the power
What is a unitary system of government?
The leading cause for separation from Great Britain
What is the lack of representation for the colonies in government?
Where the government gets it's power
What is the people/consent of the governed?
Required to make changes to the Articles of Confederation
What is Unanimous Consent?
Document that inspired the American's to create their own version and add it to the U.S. Constitution
What is the English Bill of Rights?
Type of government where a small group of wealthy people hold all of the power
What is an oligarchy?
The system of government that the United States is
What is a federal system?