Pre- Revolution
A person's god-given natural right.
What is life, liberty, and property?
Formed the basis of the new government.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
55 delegates went to Philidelphia in May 1787 for a meeting.
What is the Constitutional convention?
Dissaproved of the Constitution because it created a new federal judicial system.
Ratified in 1913 gave voters the right to directly elect U.S. senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
Influenced the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.
What is the English Bill of Rights of 1689?
Had the authority to exchange ambassadors and make treaties with other foreign governments etc.
What is the confederation Congress?
Representation is population-based.
What is the Virginia Plan?
Believed the right to tax its citizens should remain within the states.
Who is Virginia's Patrick Henry?
Abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
British soldiers and commoners had a brawl on the evening of March 5, 1770.
What is the Boston Massacre?
Elected representatives would serve no more than three consecutive years.
What is a Delegate?
Representation is state-based
What is the New Jersey Plan?
People who supported the ratification of the Constitution.
Who are the Federalists?
Many southern states placed a tax to prevent the poor mostly from voting.
What is the poll tax?
Boston men boarded a ship on the Boston harbor and threw tea overboard.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Had no power to impose taxes.
What is the national government?
Enslaved men and women would gradually be emancipated.
What is the Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery in 1780?
The people who did not support the ratification of the Constitution
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
Gave men the right to vote regardless of race, religion, or color.
What is the 15th Amendment?
In May 1775 delegates from each colony came together and drafted the reason for the rebellion and independence.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Heavily indebted farmers marched to a local courthouse demanding relief.
What is the Shay's Rebellion?
The best model for the nation's legislature.
What is the Great Compromise?
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay wrote essays that started in 1787 that insisted on a strong federal government.
What is The Federalist Papers?
Gave women the ability to vote in 1920
What is the 19th Amendment?