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Forced colonists to put expensive tax stamps on all legal documents, as well as newspapers, calendars, and almanacs.
Stamp Act
Changes to the Constitution
Amendments
A period of time when people develop new ideas about human existence.
Enlightenment
Government, where a central power would oversee and share authority with the states.
Federalist
Rights that humans share which are life, liberty and property
Natural Rights
Helps pay for the expenses of the government, like funding a war.
Taxes
85 letters written in 1780 by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay in support of the Constitution.
Federalist Papers
Wanted a small central government. They believed local governments best understood what citizens needed and would best protect citizens freedom
Anti-Federalist
America’s 1st government type that had a central government with little power.
Articles of Confederation
Amendments to the Constitution that guaranteed a list of rights to citizens, which limited the central government’s power.
Bill of Rights
A Locke philosophy that people agree to give up some freedoms, but only if the government agrees to protect everyone’s right
Social Contract
In the 1770s, a series of laws cracked down on rebellious activity in Massachusetts colony.
Intolerable Acts
Rebellion made up of grain farmers in Pennsylvania against a tax.
Whiskey Rebellion
An Act saying that the colonies were dependent on the king and declaring that all laws passed in the colonies had no effect.
Declaratory Act
Rebellion made up of Massachusetts farm owners against unfair debt collection.
Shays Rebellion
the idea that a country’s leader should be chosen by the citizens in a general election.
Republicanism
Britain taxing things it knew the colonists couldn’t make for themselves: paint, glass, paper, lead, and tea.
Townshed Revenue Act
In 1765 and 1774 forced certain colonists to let British troops live in their houses.
Quartering Acts
The idea that the authority of a government is only legitimate if the people it governs agree to it
Consent of the Governed
Gave power to the national government to collect taxes, coin money, and take care of some state issues
Constitution
The number of years of a presidential term
4 years
The number of years of a Senators term
6 years
The number of years for a Representatives' term
2 years
The minimum age of a Sentaor
30 years old
The minimum age of a Representative
25