SS.7.CG.1.5 Events leading to the D.O.I.
A tax on tea that led to the Boston Tea Party.
The introduction to the Declaration of Independence in which they founders explain why they are writing the DOI?
What is the Preamble?
The Articles of Confederation was a __________ system of government.
What is confederal?
Group selected to write the Declaration of Independence
What is the Committee of Five?
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.
Any four of the below are acceptable:
What is...?
- no power to tax
- no power to raise an army
- no power to enforce laws
- no executive branch (central leadership)
- no central judiciary to settle disputes
- 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
Law enacted by the Continental Congress under the AOC that created rules of how the Northwest Territory would be measured, divided up and sold.
What was the Land Ordinance of 1785?
The British policy that forced the colonies to provide housing, food, transportation for British soldiers in the colonies.
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?
Event that enraged colonial Massachusetts in which British soldiers fired into an unarmed crowd, killing 5 people.
What was the Boston Massacre?
One of the main colonial complaints about the new taxes being imposed upon them (hint: they didn't have a say in Parliament)
What is taxation without representation?
The following are excerpts from which section of the DOI
- "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 Grievance Section or the List of Colonial Grievances?
The number of colonies needed to make any changes to the Articles of Confederation.
What is 13--unanimous approval?
Key term that means the refusal to buy goods and services (form of protest)
What is boycott?
The act that stated that Parliament had the right to pass any laws for the colonies.
What is the Declaratory Act?
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
What are unalienable rights or natural rights?
Farmers & debtors attacked a state courthouse because their farms were being foreclosed upon for failure to pay taxes.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
Meeting in Philadelphia in 1787 where delegates decided to throw out the Articles of Confederation and draft the Constitution
What was the Constitutional Convention?
The series of laws passed by Parliament to punish Boston for destroying chests of tea during Boston Tea Party
What were the Coercive Acts (a.k.a. Intolerable Acts)?
The unwritten agreement between the citizens and their government in which the government agrees to protect the citizens' rights and the citizens agree to follow the law
What is social contract?
Law enacted under the AOC that established how newly acquired land would be admitted as new states and banned slavery in these territories.
What was the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
cruel and oppressive ruler
What is a tyrant?