What was it called when British soldiers opened fire on a mob of protesters in Boston Massachusetts, resulting in the death of five colonist?  

Formed in Boston in the summer of 1765, these were artisans, shopkeepers, and small-time merchants willing to adopt extralegal means of protest.  

Which document outlined the unconstitutionality of taxation without representation and trials without juries?

Which group favored broadening the popular participation in political life and pushed for democracy?

Which of the following states constitution restricted office holding to the wealthy planter class, stating that a man had to own at least £5,000 worth of personal property to be the governor, and possess an estate worth £1,000 to be a state senator, excluding over 90 percent of the White males in from political office?

In eighteenth-century America, as in Great Britain, the legal status of married women was defined as __________, meaning a married woman (or feme covert) had no legal or economic status independent of her husband.

The ideas of what French philosopher advocated the separation of powers in government, guided many American leaders thinking?

Who served as a role model par excellence for the new republic, embodying the exceptional talent and public virtue prized under the political and social philosophy of republicanism, he did not seek to become the new king of America, instead, he retired as commander in chief of the Continental Army and returned to his Virginia estate at Mount Vernon to resume his life among the planter elite?

What was it called when the state legislature again refused to address the petitioners’ requests, Massachusetts citizens took up arms and closed courthouses across the state to prevent foreclosure (seizure of land in lieu of overdue loan payments) on farms in debt?

Which of the following was associated with the counting of slaves in the state’s population, giving slave holding states more representatives in Congress?