Enlightenment Thinkers and People
Founding Fathers
Documents
Early Self Government
Acts and Taxes
Path to Revolution
Articles of Confederation
Constitution
Constitutional Convention
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wrote about inalienable rights and influenced the declaration of independence

John Locke

100

General of the Continental Army and 1st president

George Washington

100

influenced the american bill of rights 

english bill of rights

100

the first continental congress met in Philadelphia in 1774 to...

make peace with England and remain part of the empire

100

the taxes imposed on the colonies by the British angered the colonists because they saw them as...

taxation without representation

100

many colonists fought in this war on the side of the british about 10-20 years before the revolution

French and Indian War/ 7 Years War

100

Did the Articles of Confederation set up the US as a unitary, federal, or confederal system of government?

confederal
100

because our congress is split into two chambers it is a _____________ legislature

bicameral

100

Large State Plan

Virginia Plan

200

believed in citizen participation in government 

machiavelli

200

his midnight ride warned militiamen of the marching British army

Paul Revere 

200

our first governing document created towards the end of the revolution from 1781-1789 

Articles of Confederation

200

the second continental congress would end up passing the _______________ after king George rejected the Olive Branch Petition

declaration of independence

200

The first direct tax on the colonies by the British

Stamp Act

200

why did england impose taxes on the colonies?

pay for French and Indian War

200

under the articles each of the 13 states had ____ vote

1

200

We get protection of our individual rights from the

Bill of rights

200

Small State Plan

New Jersey Plan

300

wrote about separation of powers

Montesquieu 

300

wrote the declaration

Thomas Jefferson

300

written in 1215, was one of the first documents to limit the powers of the king

magna carta
300

which continental congress declared independence?

Second 

300

This act gave the British East India Company a tea monopoly and restricted the colonies from importing tea from sources outside the BEIC

Tea Act

300

The Colonists reacted to the tea act with what event?

Boston Tea Party

300

Why did the founding fathers intentionally make a weak central government under the articles?

Because of the tyranny they had experienced under British rule

300

this event showed the founding father's the articles of confederation were not working

Shays' rebellion

300

Which of the 2 plans was very similar to the articles of confederation?

NJ Plan

400

father of capitalism and wrote The Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith

400

wrote the constitution

james madison
400

what 3 things did the first continental congress' Declaration of Resolves ask of King George to keep the peace

Repeal the intolerable acts, End the military occupation, Let the colonies vote on their own taxes

400

Majority rule and consent of the people, One of the first documents to establish self-government in the New World.

Mayflower compact

400

as a response to the Boston Tea Party, the British passed the...

Intolerable Acts

400

first battle of the revolution and shot heard around the world

Lexington and Concord

400

to amend the articles, the vote had to be...

unanimous

400

at the Constitutional Convention, the biggest issue up for debate was...

representation in congress

400

what was the compromise that resolved the issue of slaves counting for a state population for congressional representation?

3/5 Compromise

500

Frenchman who wrote on religious tolerance and freedom of thought 

Voltaire

500

Founded Sons of Liberty and signed the Declaration of Independence. One of the earliest proponents of American independence from England 

Samuel Adams

500

Explain the following excerpt of text from the Declaration of Independence. What is Jefferson saying here? 

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government…”


When a government had violated the natural rights of the people, they are justified in revolution or forming a new government. Jefferson used this argument to argue for American independence 

500

The first democratically elected legislative body in British North America, established in Jamestown, Virginia in 1619

Jamestown’s House of Burgesses

500

Named after the man who wrote them, these taxes on things like glass, paint, and paper were another example of taxation on the colonies without representation

Townshend Acts

500
Why did Ben Franklin's Join, or Die cartoon become popular during the revolution when it was made during the French and Indian War?

showed the colonists as united which they had kind of been during the FAI War but really needed to be during the revolution to win the war

500

what were some of the weaknesses of the articles?

couldn't collect taxes, no president, no court system to resolve inter-state disputes 

500

the plan that gave us our Congress how we have it today is called the...

Great or Connecticut Compromise 

500

What would congress have looked like under the VA Plan?

Bicameral legislation where the senate and house were both using population based representation

600

Englishman who championed freedom of the press

William Blackstone

600

signed his name really big on the declaration

John Hancock 

600

Explain the following excerpt of text from the Declaration of Independence. What is Jefferson saying here? 

"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government."

When the government has been doing bad things and abusing their power for a long time like England has, the colonies are obligated to make a change to secure the rights and freedoms of the future.

600

Stated the powers and limits of government and that men had the right to create the form of government under which one shall live.

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639)

600

what did the intolerable acts do?

closed Boston Harbor, replaced the elected government of MA with a king appointed military governor, allowed British soldiers charged with a crime a trial in England, and the quartering act- British soldiers could forced colonists to house them 

600

the Albany plan of 1754 called for

a council of elected representatives and a king-appointed president

600

what were some of the strengths of the articles?

power to wage war, declare peace, make treaties, coin money, and conduct foreign affairs

600

the Iroquois Confederation influenced the Albany Plan and Constitution with their...

council of leaders and constitution-like document 

600

What would congress have been like under the NJ Plan?

unicameral congress were each state is equal with one vote each