Seven Years War
Another common name for this war.
What is the French and Indian War?
This act required the colonists to provide food and living space for British soldiers stationed in the colonies.
What is The Quartering Act?
This was the first battle in the Revolutionary War, in which no one knows who fired the first shot.
What is the battle of Lexington and Concord?
This policy included dividing the powers of state government were given to three separate branches.
What is the separation of powers?
The people who wrote the constitution.
What are Framers?
This unofficial policy, that included largely leaving the colonies on their own with little British interference was abandoned following the end of the war.
What is salutary neglect?
This act led to the creation of the popular phrase "no taxation without representation".
What is the Stamp Act?
In July 1775, the delegates voted to send this petition to King George III, in which they pledged their loyalty and asked the king to intercede with Parliament to secure peace and the protection of colonial rights.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
In this rebellion against taxes, and debt imprisonment, protesters attempted to seize weapons from the Springfield armory,
What is Shay's Rebellion?
This political group believed that a stronger central government would destroy the work of the Revolution, limit democracy, and restrict states’ rights.
What are Anti-Federalists?
In an effort to stabilize the western frontier, the British government issued this proclamation that prohibited colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
In response to the Boston Tea Party, the British government enacted this series of punitive acts.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
This treaty promised that (1) Britain would recognize the existence of the United States as an independent nation. (2) The Mississippi River would be the western boundary of that nation. (3) Americans would have fishing rights off the coast of Canada. (4) Americans would pay debts owed to British merchants and honor Loyalist claims for property confiscated during the war.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This policy set aside one square-mile section of land in each 36 square-mile township for public education.
What is the Land Ordinance of 1785?
The first ten constitutional Amendments that protect against abuses by the federal government.
What is the Bill of Rights?
In 1763, a Native American Chief led an attack against colonial settlements on the western frontier in response to the growing westward movement of European settlers onto their land.
What is Pontiac's Rebellion?
This pamphlet argued that "it was contrary to common sense for a large continent to be ruled by a small and distant island and for people to pledge allegiance to a king whose government was corrupt and whose laws were unreasonable."
What is Thomas Paine's Common Sense?
This protection promised that "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
What is the Tenth Amendment?