Colonies
This is England's law-making body. This body created taxes that colonists resisted.
What is Parliament?
A meeting that took place after the passage of the Intolerable Acts. This Congress decided to boycott British goods, form a militia, and appeal to King George III.
What is the Continental Congress?
This is when the US got land from France, Over doubled America's size, $15,000,000, $0.03
Tensions rose in the colonies when this incident left Crispus Attucks and four others dead
What is the Boston Massacre?
People who supported the ratification (approval) of the U.S. Constitution. These people believed in a strong national government.
Who are the Federalists?
The southern colonies relied on _______ _________ for their labor force on their plantations.
What is chattel slavery?
This European country became the most significant ally of the colonists during the Revolutionary War:
Who is France?
This guy was the leader of the Continental Army during the American Revolution. He eventually became the first President of the U.S.
Who is George Washington?
An uprising by farmers who attacked government buildings. Due to the weak nature of the Articles of Confederation, the government had no military to stop the rebellion.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
Father of democratic party, Preferred French over English, Strict interpretation of the Constitution, Vision of America-small farmers, Secretary of State, Washington, VP, Adams, 3rd president of the United States
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This law, passed by Parliament, required colonists to pay a direct tax on printed items such as newspapers, playing cards and legal documents:
What is the Stamp Act?
This book was important because it convinced American colonists who had been undecided to support independence
What is Thomas Paine's Common Sense?
The system of government adopted by the Founding Fathers that divided power between the national and the state government is known as:
What is Federalism?
Allowed the president to imprison and send those he considered dangerous out of the country.
What are the Alien Acts?
The first ten amendments in the U.S. Constitution. These amendments are protections against government abuse. These amendments were added to persuade the Anti-Federalists to ratify the Constitution.
What are the Bill of Rights?
This trade pattern was integral to the plantation economies for the labor that they exploited from captured and enslaved Africans, it was from Europe, to Africa, then to the colonies.
What is Triangular Trade?
Document written by Thomas Jefferson, in which the colonists declared their independence from England.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The system that ensures that no branch of the federal government becomes more powerful than the others is known as:
What is Checks and Balances?
Which conflict created the debt that American colonists were expected to repay to Great Britain during the 1760s?
What is the French and Indian war?
The first Constitution in the U.S. It was ineffective because the federal government was too weak to accomplish anything. The states retained all of the power.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This war as fueled by the embargo act and the neutrality act in the early years of 1800, it was against the British and the United States and ended with the Treaty of Ghent.
What is the war of 1812?
Limited the freedom of Press and Speech of the citizens. If a citizen "bad mouthed" the government they were imprisoned and fined
What are the Sedition Acts?
**Daily Double**
The Great Compromise was an agreement in our constitution to have both the _________ & __________ ____ _____________________.
What is the Senate and House of Representatives?
This was the compromise to include enslaved people into population numbers even though they were not afforded the right to vote.
What is the 3/5ths compromise?
The supreme law of the land, drafted in 1787 to replace the ineffective Articles of Confederation. It establishes a federal government with a separation of powers into three branches—legislative, executive, and judicial—and includes a system of checks and balances.
What is the Constitution?