STAAR Key Concepts

2. - a place for Catholics to live peacefully.
7. - law establishing a way for admitting new states to the United States, territories govern themselves.
8. - First government, Congress can negotiate treaties and declare war, no executive branch.
12. - the turning point of the American Revolution when France joined the Americans.
13. - supported the Constitution, and believed that it created a more stable Union, Alexander Hamilton & James Madison
14. - an agreement that decided how many representatives large and small states would send to Congress.
16. - belief British should have the permission of colonists to pass taxes, which was the main reason for the American Revolution.
18. - Transatlantic Slave Trade, plantations, cash crops, and fertile soil led to a different economy than the north.
19. - rights all people have from birth; life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness; Declaration of Independence.
20. - Roger Williams started religious tolerant Rhode Island.
21. - the British response to the Boston Tea Party, which increased tension between the colonists and the British.

1. - 1st anti-slavery group that lived in Pennsylvania.
3. - fishing, lumbering, shipbuilding, & harbors.
4. - British controlled colonial trade and that angered the colonists.
5. - agreement over how slaves would count for representation and taxation purposes.
6. - claimed land in New World to profit from fur trading.
9. - claimed Florida, Texas, and California & built missions.
10. - a law forbidding colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains, and this angered the colonists.
11. - wealth, religion, expand empires, claim of territory.
15. - against the Constitution, believed it needed a Bill of Rights, Patrick Henry & George Mason
17. - last major battle resulting in a British defeat, Britain then signed the Treaty of Paris and recognized the United States' independence.