1. 2015 M IDTERM R EVIEW Use this with the provided flash cards

2. P ROPAGANDA Information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement institution or nation

3. B OYCOTT To refuse to buy something

4. B OSTON T EA P ARTY Demonstration in 1773 by citizens of Boston who disguised themselves as Indians and raided three British ships in Boston Harbor. They dumped hundreds of chests of tea into the harbor.

5. Y EAR US DECLARED INDEPENDENCE FROM E NGLAND 1776

6. G EORGE W ASHINGTON In the American Revolution, George Washington was strong leader who greatly influenced the outcome of the war. He led the Continental Army

7. A MERICAN R EVOLUTION A war between England and its American Colonists

8. S UGAR A CT Act that taxed sugar, molasses and other imports

9. S TAMP A CT Act that taxed almost all printed material in the colonies.

10. D ECLARATION OF I NDEPENDENCE The document that best explains the colonists argument with Great Britain

11. S PECIFIC INALIENABLE RIGHTS Refers to the phrase “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness” as found in the Declaration of Independence

12. T HOMAS J EFFERSON Wrote the Declaration of Independence

13. S AMUEL A DAMS was a leader of the Sons of Liberty

14. B OSTON M ASSACRE KILLINGS WERE USED AS : Propaganda and a way to encourage war with England

15. C ONTINENTAL A RMY LACKED : food and ammunition

16. O LIGARCHY A government ruled by a small group based on royalty, family ties, wealth or military power

17. M ONARCHY A government where authority is handed down within a ruling family and a King or Queen

18. D ICTATORSHIP A government where there is a single ruler with absolute control

19. D EMOCRACY A government ruled equally by the people

20. COUNTRY ONCE LED BY A DICTATOR Germany

21. Q UEEN E LIZABETH IS QUEEN OF WHAT COUNTRY ? England

22. E XAMPLE OF A DICTATOR Adolf Hitler

23. A RTICLES OF C ONFEDERATION The first plan for government in the United States

24. P OWERS NOT GRANTED UNDER THE A RTICLES OF C ONFEDERATION Enact and collect taxes

25. R ATIFIED Approved

26. MAIN REASON FOR WANTING TO CHANGE THE A OF C raise money through taxes.

27. M AIN DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CONSTITUTION AND A RTICLES OF CONFEDERATION The Constitution provides for three branches of government while the Articles of Confederation does not

28. P HILADELPHIA Where the Constitutional Convention met

29. MAIN ARGUMENT AGAIN RATIFICATION OF THE C ONSTITUTION did not contain a Bill of Rights.

30. N EW J ERSEY P LAN called for equal representation of the states.

31. T HE G REAT C OMPROMISE Created a bicameral (two house) legislature with both equal representation and by population

32. 3/5 TH COMPROMISE MOST BENEFICIAL TO STATES IN THE : South

33. A NTI - FEDERALISTS would not ratify the Constitution without a Bill of Rights

34. FEDERALISTS Believed in a strong national government.

35. F EDERALIST P APERS The purpose of the Federalist Papers was to get people to support the Constitution