Colonial and Independence of the US

The United States used to be a colony of ___. People came here from all parts of the world but England was the main one. They came here to ___ and ___. The people in the colonies had freedom that people in England did not have. They had little interference and were more rich and spoiled than their full blood countrymen. Many groups of came here and made ___ types of government where people would be elected to pass on ideas. The Pilgrims came to North America and set up the ___ which was a plan for government. The people in the colonies also gave powers to different groups in society and made sure that each had their own job to perform. This became known as ___. England had many wars over the years and some like the ___ were in the colonies. After the war they expected the colonists to pay some __ for the war but of course the colonists did not want to because they were ___. Taxes like the __, on paper, and the__ on sugar, and the __ on tea were all enacted to make money for England. The colonists decided to have things like the ___, where they would destroy tea, to show England how they felt. Finally groups like the ___ Congress were enacted to draw up the form of US government and declare independence. The Declaration was written by ___ and was signed by ___ colonies. There were three parts: _______________________________.

The Declaration of Independence declared independence of the United States from ___. After that they had to make a form of government. The first form of government in the United States was called _______. All 13 states approved, or ___, the Articles. It had a Congress with ___ people per state representing each state. It did not have a ___and a ___ to prosecute people. The only group that had any power was the ___. A confederation is a __________________.

Under the Articles of Confederation they could not ___ and ____. In order to get things done __ out of 13 States had to be present to vote on something. The Articles did do some good things like make peace with ___ and say that a new state was as equal as old states. But they eventually got rid of it. Finally they got rid of the Articles and decided to form a new government based on the ___ at the ____. The main architect, or Father of the Constitution, was ___. The leader of the Constitutional Convention would be ___. In order to make everyone happy under the Constitution they had to make a great deal of Compromises. There was the Virginia Plan which would _________. The New Jersey Plan which would ____________. And the Connecticut Compromise which would __________.

Then there was the slavery question. In the North Slavery was basically ___. In the South 1/3 of the people were slaves. So the North wanted all people to be counted in the South for ___ purposes. IN the South they did not want to pay ___ on their slaves but wanted to count slaves as part of ____. So they came up with ____ Compromise where _______________.