This or That? STAAR Review

To approve, confirm, or

give formal consent to a

law or document

• Nullify

• Ratify

• People have rights government

canʼt take away ... life, liberty

and property

• Taxation without representation

is wrong

• British officials are causing

violence, riots, and death

• Patriots

• Loyalists

• Cold weather, long

winters, and rocky soil

• Economy of shipbuilding,

fishing, trade, lumbering,

and small farming

• New England Colonies

• Southern Colonies

• Wanted a stronger national/federal

government and the ratification of the

Constitution to help properly manage

the debt and tensions following the

American Revolution.

• The principles of Checks and Balances

and Separation of Powers ensures the

President will not become a King and

Tyrant.

• Federalist

• Anti-Federalist

First Battles of the

American Revolution

• Fort Sumter

• Lexington and Concord

• A strong unified British Empire

is good for all

• Taxes are due to pay for the

French & Indian War which was

fought to protect the colonies

• The American colonies would be

weak without Britain

• Patriots

• Loyalists

• Were opposed to the development

of a strong federal government and

the ratification of the Constitution in

1788, preferring instead for power to

remain in the hands of state and local

governments.

• Wanted a Bill of Rights added to

protect individual rights

• Federalist

• Anti-Federalist

Final Battle and

Surrender of the

American Revolution

• Yorktown

• Appomattox Courthouse

Turning Point of the

Civil War

• Saratoga

• Gettysburg

First Battle of the

Civil War

• Fort Sumter

• Battle of New Orleans