Governmental structure
1st independent American government
What are the Articles of Confederation?
English colonists and soldiers fought the French and their Native American allies for dominance in North America
What is the French and Indian war?
English Parliament placed a tariff on sugar, coffee, wines, and molasses. (1764)
What is the Sugar Act ?
Revolutionary leader who wrote the pamphlet Common Sense (1776) arguing for American independence from Britain.
Who is Thomas Paine?
Supporters of the Constitution
What are Federalists?
A formal statement of the fundamental rights of the people of the United States, incorporated in the Constitution
What is the Bill of rights?
political and military struggle waged between 1765 and 1783 when 13 of Britain's North American colonies rejected its imperial rule
What was the Revolutionary War?
Required colonies to provide food and quarters for British troops. Many colonists saw it as an encroachment on their rights.
What is the Quartering Act?
Founding father, served as the first and sixth post-colonial Governor of Virgina. (famous "Give me liberty, or give me death!" speech)
Who is Patrick Henry?
This treaty ended the Revolutionary War, recognized the independence of the American colonies, and granted the colonies lots of territory
What was the Treaty of Paris?
declaration of America's separation from Great Britain (1776)
What is the declaration of independence?
Rebellion led by Daniel Shays of farmers in western Massachusetts, protesting mortgage foreclosures
What was Shays Rebellion?
Placed taxes on imported materials such as glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea. Led to outrage.
What is the Townshend Act?
American Revolutionary leader and patriot, Founder of the Sons of Liberty
Who is Samuel Addams?
A radical political organization for colonial independence which formed in 1765 after the passage of the Stamp Act
What was the Sons of Liberty?
Constitutional division of powers among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches
What is separation of powers?
citizens of Boston who raided British ships and dumped hundreds of chests of tea into the harbor as a protest to taxes on tea
What was the boston tea party?
This document stated that Parliament had the right "to bind" the colonies "in all cases whatsoever." It is important because it stopped the violence and rebellions against the tax on stamps.
What is the Declaratory Act?
American silversmith remembered for his midnight ride to warn the colonists in Lexington and Concord that British troops were coming
Who is Paul Revere ?
forbade British colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains, and which required any settlers already living west of the mountains to move back east.
What was the Proclamation of 1763?
Meeting in 1787 of the elected representatives of the thirteen original states to write the Constitution of the United States.
What was the Consitutional convention?
British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists who were teasing and taunting them. Five colonists were killed
What was the boston massacre?
Law passed by Parliament in response to the Boston Tea Party, Expanded the borders of Canada, took land away from the colonies and gave it to Quebec, tried to take away colonies local self-rights
What is the Quebec act?
First Secretary of the Treasury. He advocated creation of a national bank, assumption of state debts by the federal government, and a tariff system to pay off the national debt.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
Battle won by the Americans in 1777 which helped convince the French to support the revolution.
What was the battle of Saratoga?