Colonial Roots
What country ruled the 13 colonies before the American Revolution
What is Great Britain?
What famous pamphlet by Thomas Paine encouraged independence?
What is "Common Sense"?
What is 1775?
What was the first U.S. government called?
What are the Articles of Confederation?
What document is the supreme law of the United States?
What is the Constitution?
What war in the 1750s helped lead to the British debt and more taxes on the colonies?
What is the Seven Years' War?
Whose ideas about natural rights influenced the Declaration of Independence
Who is John Locke?
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
Why was the national government under the Articles of Confederation so weak?
What is couldn't enforce or tax laws?
What are the first 10 amendments called?
What is the Bill of Rights?
What is the slogan that colonists used to protest taxes without a vote?
What is " No taxation without Representation?
What is overthrow it?
What treaty ended the American Revolution
What is the Treaty of Paris?
What 1787 event showed that the Articles of Confederation were too weak?
What is Shays's Rebellion?
What political group supported the new Constitution?
What are the Federalists?
What act taxed all printed materials in the colonies?
What is the Stamp Act?
What idea of the Enlightenment says government power comes from the people?
What is popular sovereignty?
Who was the commander of the Continental Army?
Who is George Washington?
What meeting created the U.S. Constitution?
What is the Constitutional Convention?
What was one major warning in Washington's Farewell Address?
What is avoiding political parties or foreign alliances?
What group of colonists organized protests and sometimes used violence against British tax collectors?
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
Which philosopher wrote about the separation of powers in government?
What is Montesquieu?
What was the final major battle of the war?
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
What compromise counted slaves as part of the population?
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
What idea expressed American uniqueness and unity after the Revolution?
What is American Identity or nationalism?