Road to Revolution
This war left Britain deep in debt and led it to tighten control over the colonies.
What is the Seven Years’ War (French and Indian War)?
This Enlightenment thinker’s idea of natural rights shaped Jefferson’s “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
Who is John Locke?
In 1777, enslaved people in Massachusetts petitioned for freedom using this Revolutionary era argument, derived from John Locke
What are natural rights?
Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress lacked this power to raise money.
What is the power to tax?
This group supported ratifying the Constitution and includes Alexander Hamilton
Who are the Federalists?
Before 1763, Britain followed this policy of loosely enforcing trade laws on the colonies.
What is salutary neglect?
This person wrote a majority of the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This term describes colonists who stayed loyal to Britain.
Who are Loyalists?
This 1786–87 uprising of indebted Massachusetts farmers made leaders fear weak government and instability
What is Shay's Rebellion?
Anti-Federalists feared excessive centralized power; their pressure led to this 1791 addition to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This 1763 British law banned colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
Thomas Paine’s 1776 pamphlet argued that monarchy was unjust and that the colonies should break from Britain.
What is Common Sense?
This battle in 1777 helped persuade France to ally with the United States
What is the Battle at Saratoga?
This 1787 law created a process for territories to become states
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
What is the second amendment?
Delegates from the colonies first met in Philadelphia in 1774 to coordinate a response to the Coercive Acts
What is the First Continental Congress?
In the Declaration, this section lists the king’s abuses (quartering troops, dissolving assemblies).
What is "Grievances"?
These laws, passed first in Pennsylvania in 1780, slowly slavery in northern states
What are gradual emancipation laws?
This compromise gave states equal representation in the Senate and population based representation in the House
What is the Great (Connecticut) Compromise?
This amendment protects freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and the right to assemble
What is the first amendment?
In 1775, the Second Continental Congress sent this last-ditch appeal to King George III, which he refused to read
The July 1775 Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms said colonists were fighting to defend their rights, not for this goal.
What is independence?
This post-Revolution idea held that women had a civic role raising virtuous citizens for the republic.
What is Republican Motherhood?
Under this compromise, three-fifths of enslaved people counted for representation and taxes.
What is the Three Fifths Compromise?
This amendment reinforces the separation of powers
What is the 10th amendment?