The Enlightenment
This Enlightenment thinker believed people are born with natural rights.
John Locke
This 1763 proclamation banned colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This event occurred when British soldiers fired into a crowd, killing five colonists.
What is the Boston Massacre?
The three colonial regions were New England, Middle, and this region.
What is the SOuthern Colonies?
Under the Articles, each state had this many votes in Congress.
What is One Vote?
This Enlightenment thinker influenced the idea of separation of powers.
Who is Montesquieu?
This act placed a tax on sugar and molasses imported into the colonies.
What is the Sugar Act
This protest involved colonists dumping British tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
These colonies were known as the “Breadbasket Colonies” because of grain production.
What is the Middle Colonies?
This rebellion showed the weakness of the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
This belief helped colonists argue that a government that violates rights should be changed or overthrown.
What is the social contract?
This act required colonists to pay a tax on newspapers, legal documents, and playing cards.
What is the Stamp Act?
These British laws were passed to punish Massachusetts after the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
This factor most influenced economic differences among the colonial regions.
What is Geography and Climate?
How many states had to approve to change a law?
9/13
This Enlightenment concept most directly supported colonial protests against taxation without representation.
What are natural rights?
Who did Britain want to pay with the money made from the Townshend Act?
British officials in the colonies.
This meeting brought colonial leaders together to respond to British policies.
What is the First Continental Congress?
What two states had major ports in the Middle Colonies?
New York and Pennsylvania
Name two things the government could NOT do under the articles of confederation?
Tax the states
Regulate trade between states or with foreign countries
Enforce laws on states
Another name for The Enlightenment.
What is the Age of Reason?
In order list the events that led up to the American Revolution.
Proclamation of 1763, Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Townshend Act, Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party, Intolerable Acts, First Continental Congress, Battle of Lexington and Concord
What tactic did the colonist use on the british during the battle of Concord.
What is Guerrilla-style?
Name all 13 colonies
MA, NH, CT, RI, NY, NJ, PN, DE, MD, NC, SC, GA, VA
Which state was last to agree on and sign the Articles of Confederation?
What is Maryland?