THE WEAK ARTICLES
This "firm league of friendship" was the first governing document of the U.S.
ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION
This agreement created a bicameral legislature: a House by population and a Senate by equal votes.
THE GREAT COMPROMISE
The radical group, mostly in Boston, who used intimidation and "tar and feathering" against tax collectors.
SONS (AND DAUGHTERS) OF LIBERTY
In the Legislative branch, this specific House is based on a state's population.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
This 1754 plan by Ben Franklin was the first attempt to create an intercolonial government.
ALBANY PLAN OF UNION
Under the Articles, the central government lacked the power to regulate these two major areas.
TRADE AND FINANCES/TAXES
This controversial compromise determined how enslaved people would count toward representation and taxes.
THE 3/5 COMPROMISE
I am the Ottawa Chief who led a violent uprising against British forts to prevent encroachment on Native lands.
PONTIAC
The "Great Compromise" split the Legislative branch into two houses, a structure known by this technical term.
BICAMERAL
This woman's role involved educating children to be good citizens of the new republic.
REPUBLICAN MOTHERHOOD
Most power under the Articles was placed in the hands of this specific branch of state governments.
LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
This body was created as a buffer to limit "excessive popular influence" when electing the President.
THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE
I am the author of the Great Compromise.
ROGER SHERMAN
This branch was given the power to solve the "Financial" shortages that the Articles couldn't fix due to a lack of taxing authority.
LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
This 1777 battle is considered the turning point of the war because it brought in European allies.
BATTLE OF SARATOGA
This was the specific voting requirement needed to change or amend the Articles of Confederation, a threshold so high that it led to the total "interstate issues" and the eventual call for a new Constitutional Convention.
UNANIMOUS CONSENT
To prevent any one branch from becoming too powerful, the delegates instituted this system alongside the three branches.
SEPARATION OF POWERS
I am the person who famously labeled the 1770 confrontation in Boston a "massacre" to stir up colonial anger.
SAM ADAMS
While the Legislative branch makes laws, this group feared it would become "tyrannical" without a literal Bill of Rights.
ANTI-FEDERALISTS
This term describes the British policy of "ignoring" the colonies, which ended after the war.
SALUTARY NEGLECT
Because the central government lacked the power to manage finances and trade , it was unable to effectively pay off the massive debt accumulated during this specific 18th-century global conflict.
FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR/7 YEARS WAR
The Convention focused on this principle, which involves the sharing of power between the national and state governments.
FEDERALISM
I am the Enlightenment philosopher who championed "natural rights" and the idea of "limited government".
JOHN LOCKE
These were written to convince states (especially New York) to ratify the Constitution.
THE FEDERALIST PAPERS
This decree prohibited colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.
PROCLAMATION OF 1763