Colonial Protests
This 1765 law required colonists to pay a tax on printed materials, sparking protests.
Stamp Act
This term describes colonial supporters of independence, whom women assisted indirectly through actions such as boycotts and running farms
Patriot
Supporters of a strong central government and the new Constitution were called this.
Federalists
This 1786–1787 uprising of Massachusetts farmers exposed weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
Shays's Rebllion
Ratified in 1788, this document replaced the Articles of Confederation.
Constitution
These 1767 taxes on glass, paper, and tea aimed to raise revenue from the colonies.
Townshend Acts
While women supported the war effort, they were often limited to this sphere.
Domestic Sphere
Opponents of a strong central government, fearing loss of liberties, were called this.
Anti-Federalists
As the first Secretary of the Treasury, he advocated for a strong central government, the federal assumption of state debts, and the creation of a national bank to stabilize the U.S. economy after the Revolutionary War.
Adopted in 1791, these amendments protected individual liberties.
Bill of Rights
The colonists’ slogan against being taxed without elected representatives.
"No taxation without representation"
This concept emphasized women teaching civic virtue and republican values to children.
Republican Motherhood
This compromise added protections for individual rights to satisfy Anti-Federalists.
Bill of Rights
The Constitution gave the national government the power to collect these, reducing state control.
Taxes
This first framework for U.S. government had a weak central government.
Articles of Confederation
John Dickinson wrote letters, famously under this name, criticizing British taxation.
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
She wrote to her husband to "Remember the Ladies," to which her husband scoffed at.
Abigail Adams
This amendment reserves powers not given to the federal government to states or the people.
Tenth Amendment
This policy involved the federal government taking on states’ debts from the Revolutionary War.
Assumption
John Adams argued the Revolution occurred first in this, long before battles began.
The Minds of the People
Colonial business owners, especially in New England, often opposed British taxes.
Colonial Merchants
The 1780 organization of Philadelphia women that produced goods for the Patriot cause.
Philadelphia Lades Association
Thomas Jefferson led this party that favored states’ rights over federal power.
Democratic-Republicans
The Whiskey rebellion, which occured in this region, challenged the federal government’s authority to tax distilled spirits, but President Washington’s response demonstrated the new Constitution gave the national government the power to enforce its laws.
Western Pennsylvania
This 1765 meeting allowed colonies to unite in protest of British taxation.
Stamp Act Congress