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  1. 3. The _____ act that five laws that were passed by the British Parliament against the American Colonies in 1774
  2. 7. This document served as the United States' first constitution, the _____ of confederation
  3. 11. Father of the Constitution ____ Madison
  4. 13. A crowd protested against laws made, 5 were killed the boston ____
  5. 14. One of the earliest forms of a demand for representative government and individual rights in the American colonies. The Great ____
  6. 16. The tea party into the _____ harbor in protest
  7. 19. Benjamin _____ represented the United States in France during the American Revolution, and was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention.
  8. 20. the ____ act that imposed a tax on all papers and official documents in the American colonies
  9. 22. A man Strongly Against the constitution Patrick _____
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  1. 1. on a spokesman for democracy, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas _____
  2. 2. The First President George ____
  3. 4. Former Member of the Chamber of Deputies of France Marquis de ____
  4. 5. A group of 80 essays written by John Jay, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison. The ___ Papers
  5. 6. The most influential political philosopher of the modern period, John ____
  6. 8. the basic principles and laws of a nation, state, or social group that determine the powers and duties of the government and guarantee certain rights to the people in it.
  7. 9. the act that commissing agents who would have the sole right to sell tea in the colonies
  8. 10. What King was in parliment during the American revolution?
  9. 12. the first document to put into writing the principle that the king and his government was not above the law The ____ Carta
  10. 15. An original Act of the English Parliament, with firmly established the principles ____ of Rights
  11. 17. The ____ rebellion. A rebellion for farmers wanting to keep their land after the revolution.
  12. 18. a senior general of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, leading the expedition of the placement of the artillery at Yorktown Herny ____
  13. 19. Who provided the Americans with loans, eventually totaling over two million dollars?
  14. 21. The author Common Sense, Thomas _____
  15. 22. Alexander _______ served as the first secretary of the treasury
  16. 23. an English constitutional document setting out specific individual protections against the state the Petition of ____