Colonial Society
What is salutary neglect?
This man could be deemed responsible for beginning the French and Indian War in North America.
Who was George Washington?
This document began the American Revolution?
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This person was the only President in US history to be unanimously elected president.
Who is George Washington?
Our government is based on this document today. The Federalists supported it.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
This is the process of accepting a constitution or a constitutional amendment.
What is ratification?
Amendment violated if the police come to your home and arrest your father for a gun he legally purchased.
What is the Second Amendment?
This was British economic policy in which they attempted to control markets and make sure all colonial trade enriched Great Britain.
What was Mercantilism?
This was failed plan of the military union during the war.
What was the Albany Plan?
George Washington crossed this river on Christmas day to attack Hessian troops
What is the Delaware River?
This rebellion caused fear that the U.S. Government could not govern effectively or prevent rebellion leading to the Philadelphia Convention.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
Under this government document, the National Government could not tax the states.
What were the Articles of Confederation?
This group opposed the Constitution.
Who were the Antifederalists?
Amendment violated if you are arrested for filing a petition against the government.
What is the First Amendment?
This placed a tax on all paper products in the colonies.
What was the Stamp Act of 1765?
This greatly increased for colonists due to fighting together in the French and Indian War.
This governing body helped unite the 13 colonies and administred the war for the US.
What was the Second Continental Congress?
Washington, believing the young and weak US should stay out of European affairs, prevent American participation in this.
What is the French Revolution?
This compromise decided how the enslaved should be counted towards a state's population
What is the 3/5 compromise?
This worked out an acceptable scheme for apportioning congressional representation at the Constitutional Convention.
What is the Great Compromise?
(Connecticut Compromise)
(Sherman Compromise)
Amendment that may have been violated if you get pulled over for speeding, and the officer searches your car without a warrant.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
This, reallowed by the Townshend Acts, would eventually lead to the 4th Amendment?
What were Writs of Assistance?
This ended the War. (must include date)
What was the Treaty of Paris of 1763?
This treaty ended the American Revolution.
What is the Treaty of Paris of 1783?
Washington's Farewell Address warned the US against this.
What are political parties?
Name three compromises at the Constitutional Convention.
What is the Presidential Compromise, the 3/5 Compromise, the Commerce Compromise, the Great Compromise?
This law of the Confederation Congress, passed in 1787, established a procedure for governing the Old Northwest territory.
What was the Northwest Ordinance?
Amendment violated if a person is sentenced to death for murder, and his punishment is to thrown from an airplane.
What is the Eighth Amendment?
This group advocated for homespun clothing and made British goods a symbol of Tyranny?
Who were the Daughters of Liberty?
This event inspired the Proclamation of 1763
What was Pontiac's Rebellion?
General Cornwallis became trapped at this location in 1781 and the war ended there.
What is Yorktown?
Washington established this to aid in his administration of the Executive Branch?
What is the Presidential Cabinet?
Must be specific and accurate. Ms.Bunis will say whether they are acceptable.
Thomas Jefferson held this view about the way the United States Constitution should be interpreted.
What is strict construction?
Amendment violated if the federal government outlaws the use of state funding for state infrastructure projects.
What is the Tenth Amendment?