Long Term Causes toward Revolution
The event that led Britain into debt and taxing the American colonies more.
What is the Seven Years War (or French and Indian War)?
The name of the event that prevented colonists from moving West.
What was the Proclamation of 1763?
Who were the Tories (or the Old Whigs)?
The responsibility of making new laws.
What is the responsibility of the legislative branch?
The description of what many believed was a woman's role in a democracy.
What was "republican motherhood"?
The entity where the American colonists did NOT have political representation or voting power.
What was Parliament?
The name of the event that led the American colonists to be more organized in their protest against British taxes.
What was the Stamp Act?
The name of the group of people who supported more revolutionary ideas.
Who were liberals?
The power that the executive branch has over the legislative branch.
What is veto power?
The name of the first constitution that failed because it didn't enough power to the federal government.
What was the Articles of Confederation?
The economic relationship between the American colonies and Britain.
What was mercantilism?
The slogan that summarizes why most American colonists were against new British taxes.
What was "no taxation without representation"?
The name of the political party who demanded that a bill of rights be added to the Constitution.
Who were the Anti-Federalists?
The name of the power that the Supreme Court has over the other two branches of government.
What is judicial review?
What was the "peaceful transfer of power"?
The intellectual movement that inspired many democratic ideals amongst the American colonists.
What was the Enlightenment?
The set of acts that severely restricted economic activity in Massachusetts.
What were the Coercive Acts (aka, the Intolerable Acts)?
The name of the political party who supported more centralized federal power.
What was the Federalist Party?
The shared and balanced power between the national government and state governments.
What is federalism?
The thing that Hamilton wanted to establish in order to give the federal government a line of credit and encourage investments.
What was the National Bank?
The religious movement that empowered many American colonists to question traditional authority figures.
What was the Great Awakening?
The meeting where the Americans created an army to fight against the British AND decided to offer one last petition to King George.
What was the Second Continental Congress?
Who were the Democratic-Republicans?
When change or addition is made to the Constitution.
What is an "amendment"?
The rebellion that was put down by President Washington sending in federal troops.
What was the Whiskey Rebellion?