What is Salutary Neglect?

Why did the British end Salutary Neglect and start to restrict trade and raise taxes?

What does mercantilism mean?

How did the colonists respond to the high taxes the British put on them?

What was the Proclemation of 1763 and why did the British pass it?

Why did Thomas Paine write Common Sense?

Thomas Jefferson was influenced by whose ideas?

John Locke's idea that people have the right to overthrow an oppressive government was included in what document?

The colonists slogan "No taxation without representation," expresses a belief in:

a. free trade

b. consent of the governed

c. the supremacy of parliament

d. economic independence

"...Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'tis time to part..."

-Thomas Paine, Common Sense

In this quotation, what is Thomas Paine is trying to convince the colonists to do?

What was one positive of the Articles of Confederation?

Why didn't people want a strong central (federal/national) government?

What was one weakness of the Articles?

What was another weakness of the Articles?

Why are the years under the Articles of Confederation called the "critical Period?"

1. colonies were forced to pay high reparations to England

2. States were fighting the French and Indian War

3. southern states threatened to secede from the Union over the issue of slavery

4. central government lacked the power to deal with major problems

What did Shays Rebellion show about the Articles of Confederation?

What is a representative dempocracy?

What were the name of the 2 groups who were arguing about the Constitution?

What was the Great Compromise?

What was the 3/5 Compromise?

The British neglected (left allone) the Colonists and let them make their own decisions about trade and self-government.

To pay off debts from fighting the French and Indian War.

The colonies supplied raw materials to the British who used them to make finished products (goods) to sell back to the colonists at a high price.

They boycotted the taxed British goods.

The British said the colonists could not move past the Appalachian Mountains. The British did this to avoid conflicts with Native Americans.

To persuade (convince) the colonists to break away from Britain.

The Enlightenment ideas of John Locke.

Declaration of Independence.

consent of the governed

Seperate from England/declare independence

It had a process for admitting new states to the Union.

(Land Ordinance of 1785 and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787.)

They didn't want a dictator or king to control them.

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The central government was too weak.

We elect representatives to make decisions for us.

Federalists and Anti-Federlists

Congresss will have 2 parts (House of Representatives and Senate)

Slaves counted as 3/5ths of a person which gave Southern states larger populations and therefore more representatives.