British Laws & Taxes
Colonial Protests
Ideas of Independence
Government Problems
Shays’ Rebellion
100

This act taxed sugar and molasses.

What is the Sugar Act?

100

Colonists dumped tea into this harbor in protest.

What is Boston Harbor?

100

$100$200$300$400$500Thomas Paine wrote this pamphlet encouraging independence.

What is Common Sense?

100

This was the first constitution of the United States.

What are the Articles of Confederation?

100

This man led the rebellion in Massachusetts.

Who is Daniel Shays?

200

This act taxed newspapers and legal documents.

What is the Stamp Act?

200

This protest happened in 1773 against the Tea Act.

What is the Boston Tea Party?

200

This document declared the colonies free from Britain.

What is the Declaration of Independence?

200

Under the Articles, most power stayed with these governments

What are state governments?

200

Farmers protested these during the rebellion.

What are high taxes and debt?

300

These laws controlled colonial trade.

What are the Navigation Acts?

300

Britain punished colonists with these harsh laws after the Boston Tea Party.

What are the Intolerable Acts?

300

Thomas Jefferson mainly wrote this important document.

What is the Declaration of Independence?

300

Congress could not do this important thing under the Articles.

What is collect taxes?

300

Many farmers were losing this during Shays’ Rebellion.

What is their land?

400

This act allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to colonies.

What is the Tea Act?

400

Colonists were angry because this proclamation stopped settlement west of the Appalachians.

What is the Proclamation of 1763?

400

This philosopher influenced Jefferson with ideas about natural rights.

Who is John Locke?

400

The Articles created no leader to enforce laws.

What is a president?

400

Shays’ Rebellion showed weaknesses in this government system.

What are the Articles of Confederation?

500

Colonists used this slogan to protest British taxes.

What is “No taxation without representation”?

500

This war led Britain to issue the Proclamation of 1763.

What is the French and Indian War?

500

These rights include life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

What are natural rights?

500

The national government was considered too this to solve problems.

What is weak?

500

This important document was written partly because of Shays’ Rebellion.

What is the U.S. Constitution?