English Documents/ Colonial governments
What document first established the critical idea that the monarchy's power was not absolute?
Magna Carta
This document, taxed printed paper, including legal documents, newspapers, and playing cards.
Stamp Act
This compromise led to more representation in Congress for Southern States but also higher taxes
The Three-Fifths Compromise
This group of people supported the ratification of the Constitution
The Federalists
This founding father defended British soldiers after the Boston Massacre and helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris in 1783 ending the Revolutionary War.
John Adams
This 1689 document, prohibited excessive bail and cruel and unusual punishment.
English Bill of Rights
This 1773 British Act, manipulated the price of a favorite beverage to favor the East India Company undercutting local merchants.
Tea Act.
This plan called for equal representation in Congress?
New Jersey Plan.
This Compromise prevented Congress from taxing the exports of any state
The Commerce/Slave Trade Compromise.
This founding father was a colonel in the Virginia Militia during the French and Indian War.
George Washington
These colonies were subject to the direct control of the Crown.
Royal Colonies
This 1774 act, closed Boston Harbor and restricted town meetings in Massachusetts
Intolerable Acts.
This agreement was pivotal in passing our nation's Constitution and shaped how states would be represented in Congress
Connecticut Compromise
This plan called for a government made up of three branches.
Virginia Plan
This founding father born in Scotland, would go on to sign the Declaration of Independence, call for checks and balances, and serve as an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court
James Wilson
Which colonial government could choose their own governor?
Charter colonies
This 1761 British Policy, allowed British officials to search homes and businesses for smuggled goods?
Writs of Assistance
This plan called for a Bicameral legislature?
Virginia Plan.
Who was the main architect of the Connecticut Compromise?
Roger Sherman
This founding father was the first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and was a negotiator of the Treaty of Paris, in 1783 which ended the Revolutionary War
John Jay
In this Colonial government the people and nor the King had a say in who was selected to be Governor?
Proprietary Colonial
This petition was a last ditch effort to prevent all at war with Great Britain.
Olive Branch Petition
What plan sought to revise the Articles of Confederation not totally replace them?
New Jersey Plan
You can thank this Anti-Federalist, whose staunch views about the importance of citizens' rights led to the Bill of Rights
George Mason
This founding father was the only signer of all four of the new country's documents, and suggested that Congress should be bicameral.
Roger Sherman