Founding Ideals
The state of having the same privileges, rights, status, and opportunities as others
What is equality?
The Southern colonies' economy was based on these cash crops
This act, passed in 1765, required that colonists purchase a stamp for every piece of paper they used.
What is the Stamp Act?
The first constitution of the United States
This plan proposed a one-house legislature with states represented equally.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
Powers or privileges held to be common to all people and granted at birth by nature, not by society
What are natural rights?
The act passed in 1689 further limiting the monarch's power by giving Parliament the sole power to tax and specifying citizens' rights
What is the English Bill of Rights?
This event involved colonists throwing entire shipments of tea in the Boston Harbor
What is the Boston Tea Party?
A financial problem resulting from the Articles of Confederation
What is an economic depression?
This plan resolved the issue of how many representatives each state would have
What is the Great Compromise?
A system of government founded on the idea that the power to rule derives from the consent of the governed
What is democracy?
The Zenger trial established a precedent for this freedom
What is freedom of the press?
What is debt?
A foreign problem with the Articles of Confederation
What is a lack of respect for the United States?
This plan called for three-fifths of a state's enslaved people population to be counted to determine the number of representatives each state would have in the House of Representatives
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
These rights are mentioned in the Declaration of Independence
What are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
A period religious revival during the 1700s that encouraged people to question authority and to think freely about religious matters.
Many colonists responded to the Proclamation of 1763 by...
What is ignoring it?
A domestic problem with the Articles of Confederation
What are suspicion and competition between states?
This idea means that power in the country is shared between the states and the federal (central) government.
What is federalism?
Equality was extended to these groups in 1776
Who are free, white, property owning men?
This agreement provided the first written framework for self-government in what is now the United States.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Thomas Paine's Common Sense argued for...
What is independence from Britain?
A violent uprising of farmers protesting high state taxes, debt imprisonment, and lack of paper money
What is Shays' Rebellion?
The job of the judicial branch is to...
What is interpret laws?