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Inventor, Diplomat, Delegate to the 1st and 2nd Continental Congress, Philly's own.
Who is Benjamin Franklin
These were required to be affixed to all legal documents, newspapers, playing cards, and so forth as a way to raise revenue in the colonies for the protection of a standing British army.
What are stamps
The military and financial support to America from this European nation was what many historians consider to be the key to the defeat of Britain.
What is France
Concern over the state of Massachusetts inability to put down an insurrection by this man led many state leaders to believe that the Articles needed to be "revised".
Who is Daniel Shays
This state's plan for the federal government included a popular-elected legislative branch, an executive branch, and a judicial branch.
What is Virginia
Lawyer, Massachusetts delegate, defender of independence from Britain at the 2nd Continental Congress
Who is John Adams
The first "luxury good" taxed by the British in 1764. It elicited numerous complaints from American merchants who had taken advantage of smuggling it to and from the French during the period of Salutary Neglect.
What is sugar
This state's new 1776 Constitution abolished property ownership as a means to vote/hold office as well as placed all government power in the hands of an elected assembly. John Adams believed it had gone too far.
What is Pennsylvania
While the Confederated Congress WAS able to wage war and make foreign alliances for the Confederated American States, it was legally forbidden to do this key "fund-raising" job.
What is taxation
One of the biggest compromises at the Convention, each state would receive representatives based on their population but would only have THIS number of senators regardless of how many people lived in their state.
What is two
British Prime Minister, responsible for the defense of the British colonies during the French and Indian War.
Who is William Pitt
This was the one British import to the colonies that was not repealed in the Townshend Acts.
What is tea
About 1/3 of the American population was made up of this group. Britain's failure to "mobilize"/"utilize" their forces is considered to be a major factor in the end result of the war.
Who are the "loyalists"
The Confederated Congress held all the "power" of the federal government; missing was a national court system and this "enforcement" branch that would later be added by the Constitution.
What is the Executive Branch
Hamilton was fond of this power of Congress which allowed them to pass "all necessary and proper laws" for the benefit of the nation, also nicknamed this clause.
What is the "elastic clause".
Ottawa chief who led several raids and attacks against British forts and American colonial outposts in the Western territory after the French and Indian War.
Who is Pontiac
As a warning to the colonial leaders about any "illegal meetings" (such as the Stamp Act Congress), Parliament passed this measure intended to make sure that ALL Parliamentary laws and royal proclamations WERE to be respected in the colonies.
What is the Declaratory Act
Due to this state's use of its militia to keep slaves from running away to join the British, it was unable to defend itself against an invasion as the war swung south in the early 1780s.
What is South Carolina
One of the few "successes" of the Confederated Congress under the Articles; it set the standard for admitting new states (population of 60,000 free men) and set a "dividing line" for free and slave states at the Ohio River.
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787
In order to gain South Carolina and Georgia's "buy-in", the federal government agreed not to interfere in the trans-Atlantic slave trade for this period of time.
What is 20 years
Virginia Representative to the Second Continental Congress; officially proposed independence from Great Britain.
Who is Richard Henry Lee
As a result of 12/13 colonies voluntarily cooperating in non-importation and non-consumption of taxed British goods stemming from Townshend Acts, Samuel Adams drafted this as a means of "encouraging more colonial cooperation against British tyranny".
What is the Massachusetts Circular Letter
In 1779, this British war measure declared that any slave who deserted his "rebel master" and officially joined the British army would receive protection, freedom, and land from Britain. 30,000 slaves took advantage of this offer.
What is the Philipsburg Proclamation
As a result of Shays's Rebellion and other issues stemming from the weaknesses of the Articles, a meeting among leading conservatives was called in this city to ask the Confederated Congress for permission to revise the Articles.
What is Annapolis, MD
Of all those who angrily disagreed with the ratification of the Constitution, he was the only one who signed his name to the Anti-Federalist cause.
Who is Patrick Henry