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100

Forced colonists to put expensive tax stamps on all legal documents, as well as newspapers, calendars, and almanacs.

Stamp Act

100

Changes to the Constitution

Amendments 

100

A period of time when people develop new ideas about human existence.

Enlightenment 

100

Government, where a central power would oversee and share authority with the states.

Federalist

100

Rights that humans share which are life, liberty and property

Natural Rights

200

Helps pay for the expenses of the government, like funding a war.

Taxes

200

85 letters written in 1780 by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay in support of the Constitution.

Federalist Papers

200

Wanted a small central government. They believed local governments best understood what citizens needed and would best protect citizens freedom

Anti-Federalist

200

America’s 1st government type that had a central government with little power.

Articles of Confederation 

200

Amendments to the Constitution that guaranteed a list of rights to citizens, which limited the central government’s power.

Bill of Rights

300

A Locke philosophy that people agree to give up some freedoms, but only if the government agrees to protect everyone’s right

Social Contract

300

In the 1770s, a series of laws cracked down on rebellious activity in Massachusetts colony.

Intolerable Acts

300

Rebellion made up of grain farmers in Pennsylvania against a tax.

Whiskey Rebellion 

300

An Act saying that the colonies were dependent on the king and declaring that all laws passed in the colonies had no effect.

Declaratory Act

300

Rebellion made up of Massachusetts farm owners against unfair debt collection.

Shays Rebellion

400

the idea that a country’s leader should be chosen by the citizens in a general election.

Republicanism

400

Britain taxing things it knew the colonists couldn’t make for themselves: paint, glass, paper, lead, and tea.

Townshed Revenue Act

400

In 1765 and 1774 forced certain colonists to let British troops live in their houses.

Quartering Acts

400

The idea that the authority of a government is only legitimate if the people it governs agree to it

Consent of the Governed

400

Gave power to the national government to collect taxes, coin money, and take care of some state issues

Constitution

500

The number of years of a presidential term

4 years

500

The number of years of a Senators term

6 years

500

The number of years for a Representatives' term

2 years

500

The minimum age of a Sentaor

30 years old

500

The minimum age of a Representative

25