Colonial America
Religious revivial from the 1720s through the 1740s.
What was the Great Awakening?
These were run by officers and did not have juries.
What are vice - admiralty courts?
directs foreign policy, appoints ambassadors, receives foreign dignitaries.
What are the roles of the President?
Creator of the Albany Plan of Union.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
Condition added to a document
What is a clause?
In 1735, this is the crime Peter Zenger of the New York Weekly Journal was charged with. He was found not guilty.
What is libel?
These acts closed the Boston Harbor until the MA colonists paid for tea ruined in the BTP, also known as the Intolerable Acts.
What were the Coercive Acts?
"A firm league of friendship"
What were the Articles of Confederation?
Governor Robert Dinwiddie of Virginia sent his surveryoe out west to tell French settlers they were trespassing on land claimed by Great Britain.
Who is George Washington?
After a successful fundraising campaign, the organization found itself with a ____________ of resources, allowing them to expand their services beyond the original plan.
What is a surplus?
The main cash crop of South Carolina & Georgia
What is rice?
This let officers seize goods without going to court.
What was the Sugar Act?
Handle all civil and criminal cases that come under federal authority, with at least one in every state.
What are district courts?
This Native chief of an Ottawa village near Detroit attempted to unite Native forces and captured forts and British outposts. Native Americans killed settlers along the Virginia and Pennsylvania frontier. His name inspired the title of this war that ended in 1765.
Who is Pontiac?
Used in a sentence: The board of directors passed a ____________ to increase funding for the community outreach program, reflecting their commitment to local development.
What is a resolution?
What is Pennsylvania?
This battle marked the turning point in the war, the British General surrendered on October 17th, 1777.
What was the Battle of Saratoga?
This amendment reinforces the concept of states rights.
What is the tenth amendment?
This famous Patriot said this during the Battle of Bunker Hill, "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes."
Who is Colonel William Prescott?
The government must follow procedures established by law and gauranteed by the Constitution.
What is a due process of law?
What are the writs of assistance?
This law allowed one company to sell directly to shopkeepers and bypass colonial merchants who normally distributed this product.
What was the Tea Act?
"We the People" reinforces this idea, "authority of the people"
What is popular sovereignty?
She, a Massachusetts citizen, disguised herself as a boy and enlisted in the Revolutionary War.
Who is Deborah Sampson?
Used in a sentence: The ____________ was hired by the wealthy merchant to protect his caravan on the dangerous journey through the desert.
What is a mercenary?