Taxing
This tax on printed material was seen by the American colonists as a tax on ideas
What is the Stamp Act?
This right in the original text of the Constitution protects against being held indefinitely without trial
What is Habeas Corpus?
This battle was a turning point in the American Revolution, as it led to foreign support for The Patriots
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This first successful British colony in the New World was created with a royal Charter
What is Virginia/Jamestown?
Who are the Barbary Pirates?
The end of this policy spelled more taxation for the American colonies
What is Salutary Neglect?
This solution allowed for the creation of a bicameral or two-house Congress
What is the Connecticut/Great Compromise?
This rebellion led Virginia colony to increasingly replace indentured servitude in favor of chattel slavery
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
What is a proprietary colony?
Jefferson is the founder of this political party
Who are the Democratic-Republicans?
This economic system held that the purpose of colonies was to make money for the mother country.
What is Mercantilism?
This compromise seems to uphold the rights of slave owners but actually had no enforcement mechanism when the Constitution was written.
The Declaration of Independence was heavily based on the writings of this Enlightenment philosopher
Who is John Locke?
This royal decree limited colonial expansion to the Eastern edge of the Appalachian Mountains
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
In the debate over the Constitution, Jefferson would have sided with this group
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
This document allowed tax officials to search anyone's property as many times as they wanted in search of smugglers.
What is a writ of assistance?
This violent event was a major factor in calling the Constitutional Convention
What is Shay's Rebellion?
This rebellion marks the first use of the United States' armed forces against its own people
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
These laws limited British colonies to only trading on British ships, in British ports
What are the Navigation Acts?
This 20 million dollar deal more than doubled the size of the United States
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This replaced high taxes on individual items with a single flat tax on all imported goods
What are the Townsend Acts?
According to this part of the US Constitution, the order of power goes Constitution, federal government, then state government
What is the Supremacy Clause?
This "revolutionary" event marks the first peaceful transfer of power in U.S. electoral history
What is the Revolution/Election of 1800?
A brutal conflict between Natives and settlers, it resulted in the death of 1/5 of the population of Massachusetts
What is Metacom's War?
This concept, created under Jefferson was meant to combine state and national funds on big projects
What is the Commonwealth System?