Why so Angry?
This is the name for the Seven Years' War fought in North America.
What is the French and Indian War?
The First Continental Congress created the Continental Association to keep colonists from buying British goods. In other words, the association was to enforce this.
What is a boycott?
This is the author of Common Sense.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
This is the name of the group who opposed ratification (approval) of the new constitution.
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
To help pay off their debt from the French and Indian War, Britain began to increase these.
What are taxes?
When Britain began to enforce these acts restricting colonial trade, the colonists began to protest in opposition.
What are the Navigation Acts?
This is the word for a type of government in which the rulers inherit the throne - a concept that the author of Common Sense strongly disagreed with.
What is a monarchy?
This law passed by Congress established procedures for territories to become states.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
This Constitutional compromise established equal representation in the Senate and proportional representation in the House of Representatives.
What is the Great Compromise?
These two countries competed for land/colonies and ended up fighting in the French and Indian War over land in the Ohio Valley.
What are Britain and France?
Because Parliament could not truly represent the wishes of the colonists, the colonists disagreed with the concept of this type of representation.
What is virtual representation?
This was the action that the author of Common Sense thought the colonies should take regarding Britain.
What is declare independence?
Poor farmers who had trouble paying these took over New England courthouses.
What are debts?
These essays (also called papers) were written to try to persuade the states to ratify the new constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers?
This is why the British issued the Proclamation of 1763, banning colonial settlement west of the Appalachians.
This is when a mother country uses her colonies to bring in wealth.
What is mercantilism?
This is why France decided to aid the Patriots in their war against Britain.
To weaken the British empire (Britain).
This rebellion showed that the central government was too weak, and the country needed a new constitution to strengthen it.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
This concept encouraged the education of women so that they could teach their sons to be virtuous citizens.
What is Republican Motherhood?
This is why British colonists in North America objected to the Stamp Act.
What is "taxation without representation"/taxing them without their consent?
This anti-tax slogan was a rejection of the British philosophy of mercantilism.
What is "no taxation without representation."
The Patriot victory in this battle convinced France to create an alliance with the new American nation during the Revolutionary War.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
Because of fears that the new central government would be too strong and would violate people's rights, this was added after ratification.
What is a Bill of Rights?
In order to build the nations credit, Hamilton wanted the federal government to do this with state war debts?