SS.7.CG.1.5 Events leading to the D.o.I.
A tax on tea that led to the Boston Tea Party.
The vocabulary term for an introduction.
What is a Preamble?
The Articles of Confederation was a __________ system of government.
What is confederal?
The meaning of "preamble".
What is an introduction?
Those who favored the new Constitution.
What is Federalists?
A tax on every official document.
What is the Stamp Act?
The vocabulary term for a complaint.
What is a grievance?
List four weaknesses of the A.o.C.
What is
- no power to tax
- no power to raise an army
- no power to enforce laws
- no executive branch (central leadership)
- no power to regulate trade
- 9 out of 13 states were needed to pass any new laws
- Unanimous consent (13/13 colonies) needed to change the Articles
The part of the Preamble that means "the citizens of the United States"/"Popular Sovereignty".
What is We The People?
Those who opposed the new Constitution.
What is Anti-Federalists?
The policy that forced colonists to house soldiers in their barns and homes. (hint: 3rd amendment)
What is the Quartering Act?
The author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The only branch that existed under the A.o.C.
What is the Legislative Branch?
The term that means peace and calm inside the country.
What is Domestic Tranquility?
Those who strongly criticized the absence of a bill of rights in the Constitution.
What is Anti-Federalists?
Colonists dressed up as Native Americans and dumped chests of tea into the harbor as protest.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Name the category.
- "He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly..."
- "For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us..."
- "For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent..."
- "For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury..."
- "For suspending our own Legislatures..."
What is the List of Colonial Grievances?
The number of colonies needed in order to change the Articles of Confederation. (hint: unanimous)
What is 13?
The vocabulary term that means the well-being (happiness, health, and good fortune) of the entire community.
What is general welfare?
The vocabulary term that means officially approved.
What is ratify?
The act that stated that Parliament had the right to pass laws for the colonies.
What is the Declaratory Act?
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
What are unalienable rights?
The rebellion where farmers & debtors attacked a state courthouse and demanded their freedom. There was no national army to stop its spread.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
The vocabulary term for all future generations.
What is posterity?
Those that argued that if a stronger government were not soon adopted, the country might split apart or be invaded by foreign powers.
What is Federalists?
The Federalists promised to add this document to win support for the Constitution (this helped persuade several states to ratify the Constitution).
What is the Bill of Rights?