Foundations of American Goverment

Is the American name for the North American theater of the Seven Years' War. The war was fought primarily between the colonies of British America and New France, with both sides supported by military units from their parent countries of Great Britain and France.

imposed the first direct tax on the colonists. it required them to pay a tax on legal documents, pamphlets, newspapers, and even dice and playing cards.

The Congress was attended by 56 members appointed by the legislatures of twelve of the Thirteen Colonies, the exception being the Province of Georgia, which was hoping for British assistance with Indian problems on its frontier.

The Congress met briefly to consider options, including an economic boycott of British trade; rights and grievances; and petitioned King George III for redress of those grievances

The Intolerable Acts was a name used to describe a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 relating to Britain's colonies in North America.

When the Second Continental Congress came together on May 10, 1775 it was, in effect, a reconvening of the First Continental Congress. Many of the same 56 delegates who attended the first meeting were in attendance at the second, and the delegates appointed the same president (Peyton Randolph) and secretary (Charles Thomson)

The Articles of Confederation, formally the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, was an agreement among the 13 founding states that established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution.

Thomas Jeffferson wrote it.
It is one of the most famous documents in history.
drew together the ideas of thinkers such as Locke and others to set out the colonies reasons for proclaiming thier freedom.
It is for freedom against great britan.

is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine. It was first published anonymously on January 10, 1776, at the beginning of the American Revolution.

Common Sense presented the American colonists with an argument for freedom from British rule at a time when the question of seeking independence was still undecided.

Also known as the Freedom Ordinance or "The Ordinance of 1787, was an act of the Congress of the Confederation of the United States, passed July 13, 1787.

Established the princple that the territories were to be devloped for statehood on an equal basis with the older states.

Was an armed uprising that took place in central and western Massachusetts in 1786 and 1787. The rebellion was named after Daniel Shays, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War and one of the rebel leaders

The Three-Fifths Compromise was a compromise between Southern and Northern states reached during the Philadelphia convention of 1787.
The slaves are counted as 3/5 of a person when coming up with a population count.

was an agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States Constitution. The legislative branch will have two houses(house of representatives and senate)

Took place from May 25 to September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to address problems in governing the United States of America.

was a proposal for the structure of the United States Government presented by William Paterson at the Constitutional Convention on June 15, 1787.
Wanted the legislative branch to be based on equal representation- each state gets one vote!

Was a proposal by Virginia delegates for a legislative branch based on population- larger states get more representatives and votes.

The Federal Convention, which had drafted the Constitution between May and September 1787, had no authority to impose it on the American people.

9 of the 13 states agreed to pass the Constitution.