Module 1 Lessons 1, 2, 3

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  1. 4. a pamphlet by Thomas Paine, published in 1776, that called for separation of the colonies from Britain.
  2. 5. the transatlantic system of trade in which goods and people, including slaves, were exchanged between Africa, England, Europe, the West Indies, and the colonies in North America.
  3. 7. a 1765 law in which Parliament established the first direct taxation of goods and services within the British colonies in North America.
  4. 10. an opponent of a strong central government.
  5. 12. a revival of religious feeling in the American colonies during the 1730s and 1740s.
  6. 13. colonists who supported American independence from Britain.
  7. 15. the dumping of 18,000 pounds of tea into Boston harbor by colonists in 1773 to protest the Tea Act.
  8. 17. American statesman; he was a member of two Continental Congresses, the chairman of the committee to draft the Declaration of Independence, the Declaration’s main author and one of its signers, and the third president of the United States.
  9. 18. the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution, added in 1791 and consisting of a formal list of citizens’ rights and freedoms.
Down
  1. 1. an 18th-century intellectual movement that emphasized the use of reason and the scientific method as means of obtaining knowledge.
  2. 2. English Enlightenment thinker; his ideas about natural rights and the social contract helped inspire the principles behind the Declaration of Independence.
  3. 3. supporters of the Constitution and of a strong national government.
  4. 6. colonists who supported the British government during the American Revolution.
  5. 8. an economic system in which nations seek to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by establishing a favorable balance of trade.
  6. 9. the group of department heads who serve as the president’s chief advisers.
  7. 11. a trade law enacted by Parliament in 1764 in an attempt to reduce smuggling in the British colonies in North America.
  8. 14. the first permanent English colony in North America, founded in Virginia in 1607.
  9. 16. American statesman and member of the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention; he was an author of the Federalist Papers, which supported ratification of the Constitution. He was the first secretary of the treasury under George Washington and developed the Bank of the United States.