The Revolutionary War and our new Government
His pamphlet challenged the rule of the colonies by the king of England?
Thomas Paine
The pamphlet,_____,con tributed to a growing sentiment for independence?
Common Sense
The Declaration of Independence was authored by?
Thomas Jefferson
Unalienable rights granted by the constitution are?
Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
If our government becomes destructive who has the right to abolish it and start anew?
The People
This legislation kept the colonists east of the App. Mts. And easier to protect?
Proclamation of 1763
This Act levied a tax on sugar,legal documents,tea and paper products.
Sugar Act
What was the purpose of the Sugar Act?
To pay for the French and Indian War and colonial protection.
This form of Colonial resistance helped lead to the Revolutionary War?
Boston Tea Party
This colony did not attend the first meeting of the First Continental Congress?
Georgia
This incident irrupted because of frustration by British soldiers in Boston?
The Boston Massacre
Fighting at these two places started the Revolutionary War ?
Lexington and Concord
What three groups were the colonists divided into?
Patriots, Loyalists, and Neutrals
These people Supported England during the war?
Loyalists
These colonists believed in complete independence from England?
The Patriots
They supported taxation by England to provide protection from the Indians?
The Loyalists
“Give me liberty or give me death.”
Patrick Henry
Had cultural and economic ties with England?
The Loyalists
Provided troops for the colonial armies?
The Patriots
The colonial or American armies were led by?
George Washington
What problem in England caused the British to lose the war?
Got tired of fighting the war.
This European countries financial assistance and military aid helped the American colonists defeat the British?
France
Two factors that greatly contributed to the colonial victory?
Washington’s command of the colonial army and Franklin’s foreign diplomacy
With the aid of France the colonists defeated the British at?
Yorktown
Our first form of government was the?
Articles of Confederation
The biggest problem with the Articles of Confederation was?
Weak National Government
A big financial weakness of the new government was?
No power to tax
Congress also could not _____ commerce.
Regulate
Regardless of the size of the state,each state only had ____vote?
One
The Articles lacked what two branches of the government?
Executive and Legislative
IN our new government the___and the ____were to share power.
State and Federal Governments
The Articles provided for no common______?
Currency
Our Constitution can be changed through passing_____?
Amendments
How did the delegates to the convention balance competing interests?
Great Compromise
3/5’s Compromise
Made the Federal Government the law of the land.
Balanced power, Equal representation in Senate population in House.
We avoided making a too strong Federal Government by making a_____house government.
Three
What kept each branch in line?
A system of checks and balances
The Constitution limited the power of the _____Government ?
Federal
Two key leaders of the Constitutional Convention were?
George Washington and James Madison
He was elected chairman of the convention?
George Washington
He was the Father of the constitution?
James Madison
People who favored the constitution as it was written were called?
Federalists
The Federalists favored a strong _______Govern ment?
Federal
The Anti-Federalists wanted a _______of______added to the constitution before they would sign it.
Bill of Rights
The anti-federalists also wanted the Federal Government to have less?
POWER
The Virginia Declaration of Rights, by George Mason said?
Our basic rights granted by the constitution can not be violated by the Federal Government.
The Virginia Statue of Religious Freedom stated?
The Government could not support a particular church.
The Virginia Statue for Religious Freedom was written by?
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison used these two things when drafting his Bill of Rights?
Virginia Declaration of Rights and the Virginia Statue for Religious Freedom