This act lowered taxes on molasses to reduce smuggling, but increased taxes on other products, and forced violators to be tried in front of a single judge rather than a jury.
What is the Sugar Act?
100
The effect of this war was the doubling of Britain's national debt and taxation of the American colonies.
What is the French and Indian War?
100
English-born writer who immigrated to the American colonies and published "Common Sense," persuading many colonists to support independence from Britain.
Who is Thomas Paine?
100
These unalienable rights are listed in the Declaration of Independence.
What are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
100
These were a series of essays written anonymously by the federalists Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay that argued for support of the Constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers?
200
This event saw colonists dump 18,000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor in protest of the Tea Act.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
200
Passed by Parliament after the French and Indian War that forbid colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains to avoid conflict with Native Americans.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
200
Former British officer during the French & Indian War and commander of the Continental Army during the American Revolution.
Who is George Washington?
200
The first draft of the Declaration of Independence included language that attacked the cruelty and injustice of this practice.
What is the slave trade?
200
These three branches of government were established in the Constitution with checks and balances to ensure one branch did not dominate the other two.
What are the legislative, executive, and judicial branches?
300
This act by Parliament taxed popular goods such as glass, paint, and tea that were imported into the colonies from Britain.
What are the Townshend Acts?
300
Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty protested this act by Parliament by boycotting British goods, resulting in the repeal of the law just one year later.
What is the Stamp Act?
300
The writer of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
300
The Declaration of Independence was adopted by the states on this date (including year).
What is July 4, 1776?
300
This is a style of government where power is divided between the national and state governments.
What is federalism?
400
This series of laws were the most severe acts passed by British Parliament against the colonists.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
400
Paul Revere published a dramatic engraving after this event, which caused the British to be seen as aggressors after killing five colonists.
What is the Boston Massacre?
400
English philosopher and Enlightenment thinker who said that people have natural rights and a social contract exists between the people and government.
Who is John Locke?
400
The Declaration of Independence declared that the government's power comes from the consent of this group.
Who are the governed or the people?
400
This act by Congress was the most significant accomplishment of the Articles of Confederation and set a precedent for establishing new territories westward.
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
500
The "shot that started the Revolution" or the "shot heard 'round the world" was fired at this Massachusetts town.
What is Lexington?
500
This effect of this event was the undoing of the Articles of Confederation and the meeting of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
500
British King during the American Revolution, painted as a tyrant by the Patriot colonists.
Who is King George III?
500
What truth did the Declaration of Independence declare was self-evident?
What is the truth that "all men are created equal."
500
The antifederalists demanded this, which they felt was necessary to protect the people from an oppressive government, to be included in the Constitution before they would support it.