Declaration of independence | | An agreemment prohibiting trade |
Seperation of powers | | Outspoken anti-federalist |
James Madison | | Colonies in northwest America |
Bill of Rights | | Argued that monarchy was a corrupt form of government |
Northwest Territory | | He wrote that people were naturally endowed with the right to life, liberty, and property. |
Boston tea party | | Where the making and signing of the Constitution went on |
Ratify | | First ten ammendments to the constitution |
Interstate commerece | | First person to sign the Declaration of Independence |
Battles of lexington and concord | | When U.S. troops threw all of the tea in the ocean because of the taxes |
Antifederalists | | Battle between militia men and minute men |
Federalists | | People who favor the constituition |
Thomas Paine | | Colonial plans for self government |
Magna Carta | | When farmers wanted there morgatges paid the led this revolt? |
Patrick Henry | | The division of power between the legislative,executive and judicial branches of government |
Embargo | | To approve |
Shay's Rebellion | | parliment passed the coercive acts which were called this by colonists |
Constitutional convention | | Great charter |
House of Burgesses | | It declares our independence from Britian |
Intolerable acts | | Trade amoung the states |
Mayflower Compact | | First elected law making body in English colonies |
John Handcock | | Wrote Decleration of Independence |
George Washingon | | Father of Constitution |
Articles of confederation | | First President of the U.S. |
Thomas Jefferson | | The plan for central government |
John Locke | | Threatened Britians hold on continent |
French and indian war | | people who dont favor the constitution |