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100

This act created a tax on a forms of paper in the colonies.

What is the Stamp Act?


100

During this protest, colonists dressed as Native Americans and dumped tea in Boston Harbor.

What is the Boston Tea Party?

100

Patrick Henry's famous words that told the colonists that their freedom was worth dying for.

What is "give me liberty or give me death"?


100

The first part of the constitution.

What is the Preamble?

100

The idea that different branches of government have different abilities.

What is the separation of powers?

200

This act created a tax on lead, glass, and paper in the colonies.

What is the Townshend Act?

200

During what started as a riot, British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists.

What is the Boston Massacre?

200
This document stated that the colonists were officially breaking away from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
200

Changes to the constitution.

What are amendments?

200

The idea one branch can check another branches powers.

What are checks and balances?
300
These acts were considered intolerable by the colonists.  The acts banned trade and meetings, required colonists to pay for lost tea and to house soldiers. 

What are the Intolerable Act?

300

These were the first battles of the Revolutionary War.

What are the battles of Lexington and Concord?

300

This pamphlet written by Thomas Paine told colonists that it was common sense to break away from Great Britain.

What is "Common Sense"?

300
The first 10 amendments.

What is the Bill of Rights?

300

This was the compromise to the issue of some states having a bigger population due to slavery. It said slaves would only count for a fraction of a non-slave.

What is the 3/5 compromise?

400

This war between Great Britain and France caused Great Britain to go into debt and begin taxing the colonists.

What is the French and Indian War?

400
This was the last battle of the Revolutionary War where the colonists surrounded the British.

What is the Battle of Yorktown?

400
This document had the outline for the first plan of government in the states.  In this plan, the states were independent and loosely connected.

What are the Articles of Confederation?

400
The three branches of government.
What are legislative, executive, and judicial?
400

This was the compromise that combined the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan.  It made the House of Representatives based on state population and the Senate only have 2 people from each state.

What is the Great Compromise?

500

At this meeting, colonists met and talked about the issues they were having with Great Britain.  They decided to send the king a letter with their complaints.

What is the First Continental Congress?

500

During this battle, the British won but lost more men proving that the colonists would not be easily defeated.

What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?

500

This treaty ended the Revolutionary War and gave the colonists land in the North America.

What is the Treaty of Paris?

500
The group of people who makes laws.  It is split into the House of Representatives and the Senate.

What is Congress?

500

The issue between states was mainly over ________.  States with smaller ________ did not want states with bigger ________ to have more power.  

What is population?