1. Who is fighting in the French and Indian War? 2. What does the war leave Britain with?
3. Who will pay the debt from war?|I
4. What is the Stamp Act?
5. What are the causes of the Boston Tea Party?
6. What does "taxation without Representation" mean?
7. Why did the First and Second Continental Congress meet?
8. Who issued the Declaration of Independence and why?
9. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
10. On what philosopher was the Declaration based and how did his notion of the social contract influeno
the American Colonists?
11. Explain the four main reasons for the colonists' success.
12. What was the first constitution?
13. Why did we need a new constitution?
14. Name two problems with the Articles of Confederation,
15. What are checks and balances?
16. Explain who the Anti-Federalists are?

1. French & Indians vs British & Colonists
2. massive debt
3. the colonists since the British went into debt to protect them
4. a direct tax on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. it significantly affected the less wealthy and angered many colonists
5.
- Stamp Act and Townshend Acts
- Boston Massacre
- Tea Act
- "Taxation without Representation"
6. It means that the colonists were being taxed by the British Parliament without having anyone from the colonies representing them in Parliament, so they had no say in any of the taxes being imposed on them.
7. First- in response to the coercive acts which were passed after the tea party
Second- to plot the course of war as the Revolutionary War has just begun. Here they appointed George Washington as commander of the Continental Army.
8. The second continental congress & to declare themselves as an independent nation and therefore be able to enlist the help of other countries
9. Thomas Jefferson
10. Jean-Jacques Rousseau & the social contract is the idea that the government exists with the consent of the people whom it governs SO this influenced colonists to fight for independence since the government was doing things they did not consent to (taxation without representation)
11. 4 reasons:
-Colonists had home field advantage: they knew the land they were fighting on and the British didn't
-Guerilla Warfare: the colonists did not fight the way war was fought in Europe- they engaged in sneak attacks, ambushes, raids, sabotages, etc
-Alliance with the French
- The sheer geographical size of the colonies and their lack of one capital (the British couldn't take the capital if they didn't have one)
- The overall support from the majority of colonists for the war
12. the Articles of Confederation
13. the AOC did not allow a functioning government
14. 2 reasons:
- the government could not tax
- all states needed to agree to pass an amendment
15. a system that allows each branch of a government to amend or veto acts of another branch so as to prevent any one branch from exerting too much power (Merriam-Webster)
16. Those who opposed the Constitution. They did not like the idea of a strong national government (for fear of it becoming like Great Britain) and favored states rights and power. Famous Anti-Federalists:
- Patrick Henry (seen as the leader)
- Thomas Jefferson
- Samuel Adams
- James Monroe