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The results of this conflict ended the period of salutary neglect and increased tensions between Britain and the colonists.
What is the French and Indian War?
This compromise resolved the issue of slavery as it pertains to representation
The 3/5th Compromise
Anti-Federalists refused to consider ratifying the Constitution without the inclusion of this significant item
The Bill of Rights
The main author of the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson
Leader of the Continental Army
George Washington
This law required that a stamp be placed on all paper goods in the colonies, beginning the calls for taxation without representation.
The Stamp Act
This compromise came over the dispute between small states and large states on how to apply representation in the new government
What is the Great Compromise?
This ended the Revolutionary War and recognized the United States as an independent Country
What is the Treaty of Paris of 1783?
Taxes imposed in 1767 on imports of paper, paint, lead, glass & tea.
Townshend Acts
The "Father of the Constitution"
Who is James Madison?
This group either opposed the creation the Constitution or suggested that more rights needed to be added to ensure limits on the new government
What is the Anti-Federalists?
This group supported a stronger national government and ratifying the Constitution
The Federalists
After the American Victory at Saratoga, this country provided military and economic aid to the colonists, marking a turning point in the war.
France
The purpose of the Federalist Papers
What is to answer antifederalist criticisms of the Constitution and convince them to sign on for it?
sentiment that revered women as homemakers, the cultivators of good civic values in young citizens
What is Republican motherhood
The British forbid American colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains
What is the Proclamation Line of 1763?
This movement included a range of ideas centered on the pursuit of happiness, sovereignty of reason, and the evidence of the senses as the primary sources of knowledge and advanced ideals such as liberty, progress, toleration, fraternity, constitutional government, and separation of church and state.
The Enlightenment
It was intended to eliminate the illegal sugar trade between the Spanish and French West Indies and the British colonies
The Sugar Act of 1764
This conflict demonstrated the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation and prompted the Constitutional Convention
What is Shays' Rebellion
Largely ignoring the regulation and commerce of the colonies by the British is called
Salutary neglect
This 1787 law provided a method for admitting new states to the Union from the territory, and prohibited slavery within those states.
The Northwest Ordinance
This pamphlet was influential in convincing many Americans that the colonies should declare their independence from Britain
Common Sense
This small state's proposal put forth during the Philadelphia convention proposing equal representation by state, regardless of population in a unicameral legislature.
What is The New Jersey Plan
This small uprising showed the power of the new government, under the Constitution, when the uprising was ended quickly.
Whiskey Rebellion
This Supreme Court Ruling created the concept of Judicial Review, the judiciary has the power to eliminate laws it deems unconstitutional
Marbury v. Madison