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British Acts
In the Beginning...
The Declaration of Independence
Early Government
Compromise
100
The British placed this act on sugar.
What is the Sugar Act.
100
Colonialists refused to use British goods. This is also know as what?
What is boycotting.
100
The Declaration of Independence was drafted by this man.
Who is Thomas Jefferson.
100
The first set of laws that governed the United States.
What is the Articles of Confederation.
100
To prohibit from becoming law.
What is to veto.
200
The act which propelled the Boston Tea Party.
What is the Tea Act
200
Where the First Continental Congress met.
What is Philadelphia.
200
The colonists' statement of reasons for separation.
What is the Declaration of Independence.
200
The only branch created under the Articles of Confederation.
What is the legislature.
200
The compromise that dealt with the issue of slavery and representation.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise.
300
The act where the British stated that the colonies were required to house the British soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act
300
The First Continental Congress occurred in response to this event.
What is the Boston Tea Party.
300
A petition written to King George III expressing the colonists' continued loyalty to the monarch and their desire for peace.
What is the Olive Branch Petition.
300
A government run by the people through their elected representatives.
What is a republic.
300
The compromise that produced our bicameral legislature.
What is the Great Compromise.
400
The acts which propelled the First Continental Congress.
What is the Intolerable Acts
400
The official beginning of the American Revolution.
What is the battles of Lexington and Concord
400
He was the president of the Second Continental Congress and signed the Declaration of Independence. (The largest signature)
John Hancock
400
This event caused many Americans realize the need for a stronger national government.
What is Shays' Rebellion.
400
A system in which power is shared among state and national authorities.
What is a federal system of government.
500
The British placed taxes on imports such as lead, paper, tea, paint, and glass.
What are the Townshend Acts.
500
The closure of the region West of the Appalachian Mountains to settlers.
What is the Proclamation of 1763
500
The three main philosophers who's ideas were adopted in the Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Locke, Renee Descartes, and Jacqueline Jean Rousseau.
500
The meetings where the idea of the Constitution started.
What is the Constitutional Convention.
500
Among the three separate branches, each branch has their own area of authority, but no one branch has complete power over the government.
What is separation of powers.