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This 18th-century intellectual movement resulted in regular citizens questioning the authority of their political leaders.
What is the Enlightenment?
This 18th-century religious movement resulted in the questioning of religious authorities and emphasized a personal relationship with God.
What is the Great Awakening?
This was the name of the conflict that pitted the British colonists against the French and their American Indian allies.
What is the French and Indian War?
This was an act passed by the Parliament of Great Britain in 1764 intended as a revenue-raising act on molasses and sugar imports.
What is the Sugar Act?
This act required colonists to house and feed British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act?
These were a series of laws that issued taxes on certain goods and implicitly acknowledged the Parliament of Great Britain to impose taxes on the Thirteen Colonies.
What are the Townsend Acts?
This was a confrontation on March 5, 1770 in which British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob.
What is the Boston Massacre?
These were punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774. The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in protest to changes in taxation by the British.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
This was the event in which the Sons of Liberty, some dressed as American Indians, dumped British tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
These were two battles fought between colonial militia and British regular troops.
What are Lexington and Concord?
This was the name of the meeting of colonial leaders who debated whether or not to stay a part of the British Empire.
What is the Continental Congress?
This was the name of the peaceful attempt for settlement by the colonists with the British Crown.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
This was the name of the decision by the [Second] Continental Congress to formally break from Great Britain.
What is the Lee Resolution?
This was the name of the document many of them signed officially separating from the British Empire.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This was our first government that lasted from roughly 1781-1789; it was replaced due to the fact that the national government was too weak.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This was our second government which established a constitutional federation with checks and balances, the separation of powers, and a system of amendments.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
This was a protective mechanism in many modern constitutions that provides ways for other branches of government to stop or stymie the actions of another—especially if the action is considered an abuse of power.
What are checks and balances?
These were delegates at the Constitutional Convention and ratification period that supported a stronger national government.
Who are the Federalists?
These were delegates at the Constitutional Convention and ratification period that were wary of a stronger national government and demanded explicit protections for the rights of individuals and states.
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
This is the name for the first ten amendments to the United States that provide certain protections to appease state leaders who demanded explicit protections for the rights of individuals and states.
What are the Bill of Rights?