Early America vocab

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  1. 4. an armed uprising in western Massachusetts from 1786 to 1787, led by farmer and former Continental Army captain Daniel Shays
  2. 7. a series of arguments in the late 1780s between Federalists and Anti-Federalists over whether to approve the Constitution for the new nation
  3. 10. political statements passed by the legislatures of Virginia and Kentucky, drafted to protest the federal government's Alien and Sedition Acts
  4. 11. deadly clash between British soldiers and Boston colonists on March 5, 1770, when soldiers fired into a crowd, killing five and wounding others
  5. 14. the King of Great Britain during the American Revolution
  6. 15. a 1765 British law that imposed a direct tax on the American colonies, requiring that many printed materials—such
  7. 18. A meeting between all the states that come together to change the constitution
  8. 19. The United States first Constitution
  9. 20. the separation of church and state outlined in the First Amendment
  10. 21. Every slave counts as â…— of a person for representation and tax purpose
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  1. 1. the fourth U.S. President
  2. 2. The Boston Tea Party was a political protest where American colonists, disguised as Native Americans, dumped 342 chests of British tea into Boston Harbor
  3. 3. a series of 85 essays made to persuade citizens to ratify the proposed United States Constitution
  4. 5. an agreement between the United States and Great Britain that aimed to resolve disputes remaining since the Revolutionary War
  5. 6. a violent uprising in western Pennsylvania against a federal excise tax on whiskey
  6. 8. the formal document adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, that announced the thirteen American colonies were separating from Great Britain and forming a new nation
  7. 9. a diplomatic incident in between the United States and France that involved French agents demanding bribes from American diplomats as a prerequisite for negotiations
  8. 12. The Townshend Acts were a series of British laws passed that imposed taxes on goods like tea, glass, paper, and paint imported into the American colonies
  9. 13. a set of four laws passed by the U.S. Congress in 1798 that restricted the rights of immigrants and limited free speech
  10. 16. the bank made by the US government
  11. 17. the first ten amendments to the Constitution