The law prohibitting the colonists from moving West of the Appalachain Mountains after the French and Indian War.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
100
The name given to the group of colonists under the leadership of Samual Adams.
What is the Sons of Liberty?
100
The first Constitution of America that had to be changed because it did not work.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
100
The type of government in which officials are elected into office.
What is a democracy?
200
The first celebration of successful harvest by both Native Americans and the Pilgrims.
What is Thanksgiving?
200
The act forcing colonists to pay a tax on every day items such as newspapers, cards, and legal documents.
What is the Stamp Act?
200
The colonists' response to the Tea Act.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
200
The plan created by Edmund Randolph calling for a strong national government and representation in Congress based on population.
What is the Virginia Plan?
200
The sphere of society in which family and friends associate.
What is the private sphere?
300
The colonial region in which tobacco, rice, and indigo were the main crops.
What is the South?
300
The act placing taxes on paint, glass, lead, paper, and tea imported to America.
What are the Townshend Acts?
300
The organization of a group of citizens ready to fight in an emergency.
What is militia?
300
The limiting of the power of government by separating governing bodies.
What is separation of power?
300
A type of government in which most decisions about government are made by representatives.
What is a republic?
400
The American dream arose from the new ideal that a person could move from one social class to another.
What is social mobility?
400
The nickname the colonists gave the Coervice Acts, the acts which closed Boston Harbor and reduced the rights of self-government to Massachusetts colony.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
400
The village in which the first shots of the Revolutionary War were fired.
What is Lexington?
400
The separation of power between national and state governments.
What is federalism?
400
A rule or action that resolves public issues or problems.
What is public policy?
500
The area west of the Appalachain Mountains in which the British and French were competing for land and the fur trade.
What is the Ohio River Valley?
500
The British tea company who held exclusive rights to sell tea to the colonists without paying an import tax.
What is the British East India Company?
500
The commander of the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
500
The branch with the most important responsibility to interpret laws and to preserve and protec the rights the Constitution guarantees.
What is the Judicial branch?
500
The type of government in which individual rights and freedoms are highly valued and protected.