Period 3

Question 1

Word

Answer 1

Defintion (Make sure to note the time period if possible)

Question 2

Stamp Act Congress

Answer 2

a law passed in 1765 in which parliament established the first taxation of goods and services within the British colonies in North America.

Question 3

Sons and Daughters of Liberty

Answer 3

Organized in 1765, they were American colonists who supported the patriot cause by using threats, protests and boycotts to intemidate those loyal to the crown.

Question 4

Intolerable Acts

Answer 4

a series of laws enacted in 1774 to punish Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party.

Question 5

Whigs

Answer 5

the political party formed in 1834 to oppose the policies of Andrew Jackson.

Question 6

Salutary neglect

Answer 6

Salutary neglect meant that England relaxed its enforcement of most regulations in return for continued economic loyalty of the colonies

Question 7

Pontiac’s Rebellion

Answer 7

Pontiac rebellion launched in 1763 by Native Ameircans who were dissatisied with the British rule about the Great Lakes region.

Question 8

Proclamation of 1763

Answer 8

an order which Britan prohibited its American Colonists from setteling west of the Appalachian Mountains

Question 9

Seven Years’ War

Answer 9

a global conflict involving most great european powers, also called French & Indian War

Question 10

Albany Plan of Union

Answer 10

A rejected plan to unify a centeral government for the thirteen colonies.

Question 11

Sugar Act (1764)

Answer 11

A trade law enacted by Parliament in 1764 in an attempt to reduce smuggling in the British colonies in North America

Question 12

Quartering Act (1765)

Answer 12

were two or more Acts of British Parliament requiring local governments of Britain’s North American colonies to provide the British soldiers with housing and food

Question 13

Stamp Act (1765)

Answer 13

A 1765 law in which Parlament established the first direct taxation of goods and services within British colonies in North America

Question 14

Declaratory Act (1766)

Answer 14

declaration by the British Parliament that accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act

Question 15

Townshend Acts (1767)

Answer 15

Act created by British treasury Charles Townshed in 1767 making it so everyday items to be taxed in order to pay for military expensise

Question 16

Tea Act (1773)

Answer 16

Act of 1773 was an act of Great Britain’s Parliament to reduce the amount of tea held by the financially insecure British East India

Question 17

Coercive Acts (1774)

Answer 17

a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party.

Question 18

Enlightenment

Answer 18

movent in the 1700’s that emphisises the use of science and reason to gain knowlage

Question 19

John Locke

Answer 19

an engish philoserpher and physician ( died in 1704). He inspired the push for democracy in the US

Question 20

First Continental Congress (1774)

Answer 20

a meeting with 12 of the 13 us colonies in 1774

Question 21

Second Continental Congress (1775)

Answer 21

a meeting that was called after britan went to war with the colonies

Question 22

Declaration of Independence

Answer 22

document writtan by tomas jefferson in 1776 which declared the colonies independence from britian

Question 23

Northwest Ordinance of 1787

Answer 23

a govenerment created for the northwest territorry for admitting new states into the union and listed them into the bill of rights

Question 24

Articles of Confederation

Answer 24

an agreement among the 13 states that set the foundation for american govnerment

Question 25

Prohibitory Act (1775)

Answer 25

britain relesed the united states from their protection

Question 26

Treaty of Paris (1783)

Answer 26

The treaty that ended the revolutionary war, confirming the independence of the united states and setting the boundries of the new nation

Question 27

Thomas Paine; Common Sense

Answer 27

A pamphlet by Thomas Paine, published in 1776, that called for separation of the colonies from Britain.

Question 28

Shay’s Rebellion

Answer 28

an uprising od debt-ridden Mssachusetts farmers protesting increased state taxes in 1787

Question 29

Federalists

Answer 29

supporters of the Constitution and of a strong national government

Question 30

Anti-Federalists

Answer 30

an oppent of a strong central government

Question 31

Bill of Rights; amendments

Answer 31

the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constituion added in 1791 and consisting of a formal list of citizens right and freedoms.

Question 32

Alien and Sedition Acts

Answer 32

a series of four laws enacted in 1798 to reduce the political power of recent immigrants to the United States

Question 33

Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions

Answer 33

Political statements drafted in 1798 and 1799 in which the Kentucky and Virginia legislatures took the position that the federal Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional.

Question 34

Checks and balances

Answer 34

The ability of each branch to respond to the actions of the other branches

Question 35

Virginia Plan

Answer 35

Constitutional Convention in 1787, James Madison’s Virginia Plan outlined a strong national government with three branche

Question 36

New Jersey Plan

Answer 36

Proposed a unicameral (one-house) legislature with equal votes of states and an executive elected by a national legislature

Question 37

Connecticut Plan; Great Compromise

Answer 37

the Constituional Conventions agreement to establish a two-house national legislature, with all states having equal representation in one house and each state having representation based on its population in the other house.

Question 38

Three-Fifths Compromise

Answer 38

3 of 5 slaves were counted when determining a state’s total population for legislative representation and taxation.

Question 39

Whiskey Rebellion

Answer 39

A violent tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791 and ending in 1794 during the presidency of George Washington.

Question 40

Democratic-Republican party

Answer 40

The Republican Party, retroactively called the Democratic-Republican Party and also referred to as the Jeffersonian Republican Party

Question 41

Jay Treaty

Answer 41

The Jay Treaty was signed on November 19, 1794, during the Thermidorian Reaction in France, and submitted to the United States Senate for its advice and consent

Question 42

XYZ Affair

Answer 42

A diplomatic incident between the French and U.S. diplomats that resulted in a limited undeclared war known as the Quasi-War in 1800.