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Leading up to...
...the American Revolution
Founding Ideals
A New Government
Potpourri
100
This act gave the British East India Co. complete control of trade of tea in the colonies.
What is the tea act?
100
This group was comprised of King George III and Parliament.
What is the British Government?
100
This is the condition of being equal.
What is equality?
100
This compromise appeased both large and small states in terms of representation.
What is the Great Compromise?
100
This is the process of assigning meaning to historical events.
What is historical interpretation?
200
This angered many colonists when Parliament declared colonists could not go past the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
200
This group wanted to be free from Britain, even if it meant through means of war.
What are the Patriots?
200
This ideal has its roots in English government with the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights.
What is rights?
200
According to a compromise between northern and southern states, slaves made up this fraction of representation.
What is 3/5?
200
This trial affirmed the freedom of the press.
What is the Zenger Trial?
300
These series of acts passed imposed duties (taxes) on items being imported into the colonies.
What are the Townshend Acts?
300
This is recognized as the first Battle of the Revolutionary War.
What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord?
300
This is the freedom to think or act without being limited by unnecessary force.
What is liberty?
300
This system of government balances power between the states and national government.
What is the federal system?
300
The group that supported the new Constitution in 1787 were called this.
What are the Federalists?
400
These laws were passed after the Boston Tea Party and economically wrecked the city of Boston.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
400
This treaty officially ended the war between the colonists and Britain.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
400
This ideal is a promise that people should have the chance to achieve their potential and dreams.
What is opportunity?
400
According to the Constitution, this person or group has the power to declare war.
What is Congress?
400
The Antifederalists refused to ratify the Constitution without the addition of this.
What is the Bill of Rights?
500
The Stamp Act was an example of this kind of tax, which is why it angered the colonists so much.
What is an internal tax?
500
According to the Treaty of Paris, colonists could not settle west of this.
What is the Mississippi River?
500
This form of government puts power in the hands of the people.
What is democracy?
500
This establishes and lists the goals of the republican form of government.
What is the Preamble?
500
This man is called the Father of the Constitution.
Who is James Madison?