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- 1. rights that people supposedly have under natural law
- 3. the leader of the Democratic-Republican party, and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and served as president from 1801 to 1809
- 6. a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775-76 advocating independence from Great Britain to the people in the Thirteen Colonies
- 8. the first ten amendments to the constitution.
- 9. an American revolutionary leader and pamphleteer who supported the American colonist’s fight for independence and supported the French Revolution
- 12. the original constitution of the US, ratified in 1781, which was replaced by the US Constitution in 1789
- 13. a treaty signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War
- 15. who did not support the constitution and were against it
- 16. a riot in Boston arising from the resentment of Boston colonists toward British troops quartered inf the city, in which the troops fired on the mob and killed several persons.
- 19. an outline of the process for states to count slaves as part of the population to determine representation and taxation for the federal government
- 21. a series of military engagements between Britain and France in North America between 1754 and 1763.
- 22. the that persons’ moral and/or political obligations are dependent upon a contract or agreement among them to form the society in which they live.
- 24. a political leader of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; one of the Founding
- 26. the fundamental law of the United States, drafted in Philadelphia in 1787, ratified in 1788 and put into effect in 1789. It establishes a strong central government in place of the Articles of Confederation
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- 2. 1st president of the United States; commander-in-chief of the continental Army during the American Revolution
- 4. an agreement that large and small states reached during the constitutional convention of 1787.
- 5. a seventeenth-century English philosopher
- 7. an act of the British Parliament in 1765 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents.
- 10. the formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain
- 11. a form of government in which elected individuals represent the citizen body and exercise power according to the rule of law under a constitution.
- 14. people who supported the constitution
- 17. an act of vesting the legislative, executive, and judicial powers of government in separate bodies
- 18. a treaty that ended the French and Indian War between Great Britain and France, as well as their respective allies.
- 20. commander of the British forces in the American War of Independence
- 23. a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system
- 25. a colonist of the American revolutionary period who supported the British cause