What prohibited the colonies from printing additional paper money and required colonists to pay British merchants in gold and silver instead of the colonial paper money already in circulation?
Which of the following was the first direct tax placed on th…
Which of the following was the first direct tax placed on the American colonists, taxing anything what was written or printed?
Which document outlined the unconstitutionality of taxation…
Which document outlined the unconstitutionality of taxation without representation and trials without juries?
What was the event known as where the Son’s of Liberty dress…
What was the event known as where the Son’s of Liberty dressed as Native Americans, and systematically dumped all the tea into the harbor, destroying goods worth almost $1 million in today’s dollars as protest against the Tea Act?
American Patriots renamed the Coercive and Quebec measures t…
American Patriots renamed the Coercive and Quebec measures the
What was it called when British soldiers opened fire on a mo…
What was it called when British soldiers opened fire on a mob of protesters in Boston Massachusetts, resulting in the death of five colonist?
Which group favored broadening the popular participation in…
Which group favored broadening the popular participation in political life and pushed for democracy?
What was made up of elected representatives from twelve of t…
What was made up of elected representatives from twelve of the thirteen American colonies, the representatives met in Philadelphia from September 5 through October 26, 1774, and at first they did not agree at all about the appropriate response to the Intolerable Acts?
The ideas of what French philosopher advocated the separatio…
The ideas of what French philosopher advocated the separation of powers in government, guided many American leaders thinking?
In eighteenth-century America, as in Great Britain, the lega…
In eighteenth-century America, as in Great Britain, the legal status of married women was defined as __________, meaning a married woman (or feme covert) had no legal or economic status independent of her husband.