Causes of Revolution
This act required colonists to house soldiers within their own homes and was wildly unpopular.
What is the Quartering Act?
True or False:
Everyone going through the process of naturalization must wait five years.
What is false?
These were a series of essays written to advocate for the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
What are The Federalist Papers?
This theory states that the United States is a stronger country because of our diversity and we should celebrate people maintaining their own diverse cultures and beliefs.
What is the Tossed Salad Theory?
A political protest on December 16, 1773, where American colonists, disguised as Native Americans, dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor to protest the Tea Act and taxation without representation.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
These acts were designed to punish the colonists for their actions in the Boston Tea Party. They closed the port of Boston, brought British soldiers to England for trials, Boston was placed under military control, and no town meetings were allowed in Massachusetts.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
True or False:
I was born on a naval base in Japan. I am not a U.S. citizen.
What is false?
This document served as the first Constitution of the United States from 1781-1789.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
This philosopher was an enlightenment thinker and believed in "life, liberty and property", also known as the father of liberalism.
Who is John Locke?
A deadly riot that occurred on March 5, 1770, on King Street in Boston. It began as a street brawl between American colonists and a lone British soldier, but quickly escalated to a chaotic, bloody slaughter. The conflict energized anti-British sentiment and paved the way for the American Revolution.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This act placed on the colonies was designed to keep trade in England and support mercantilism; colonists could only trade goods with England and all colonial ships must stop in a British harbor before going to another country.
What is the Navigation Acts?
This is the name of the form that must be filled out when someone wants to begin the process of naturalization.
What is the N-400?
A 1215 English charter that established the principle that everyone, including the king, is subject to the law, and it guaranteed certain individual rights. Signed by King John, it is considered a foundational document for constitutional law and influenced the development of democratic principles and legal systems worldwide, including the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.
What is the Magna Carta?
This theory states that people should assimilate into one American identity so that our government and society doesn't fragment, yet can focus on a greater and more common good for the people.
What is the Melting Pot Theory?
This term means an armed group of people gathered and trained at the local level for defense of that community.
This secret society was created by Samuel Adams as a way for the colonies to be able to communicate and pass information.
What are the Committees of Correspondence?
True or False:
I was born in France. My mother was a U.S. citizen, my father was a French citizen. I grew up in Paris, lived here my entire life, and I married my husband, a German citizen last year. We just had a baby. My baby isn't a U.S. citizen.
What is true?
Name the document: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal..."
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This philosopher believed that without government there would be anarchy; people need government to protect not only themselves but their property.
Who is Hobbes?
A secret organization of American patriots formed in 1765 to protest British taxation and policies, most notably the Stamp Act and the Tea Act. Led by figures like Samuel Adams and John Hancock, they used tactics ranging from public demonstrations and boycotts to more aggressive actions like the Boston Tea Party and tarring and feathering to resist British rule. Their actions helped to unify colonial opposition, laying the groundwork for the American Revolution and the eventual formation of the United States.
What is the Sons of Liberty?
This war (1754-1763) increased issues between the colonists and England because of England's inability to pay for the costs of being a part of the war.
What is the French & Indian War?
What is naturalization or natural born?
Name the document: "We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union..."
What is the U.S. Constitution?
This philosopher believed that people are born good and can abide by a social contract; it's government that makes them bad.
Who is Rousseau?
The fundamental overthrow of a political system.
What is a revolution?