Adv Social Studies Final 2025

Navigation Acts and their impact

Series of english laws, designed to control colonial trade

sugar act

taxing sugar, molasses, wines

stamp act

requiring stamps on all paper

townshend acts

taxed goods like glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea

Ownership laws before war F and I war

French, British, and Spanish claims, Natives controlling most territories

Ownership after F and I war

Britain gained almost all French lands EAST of the Mississippi river

Thomas Paine’s argument in “Common Sense” and how it supported independence

dismantling the LOGIC of monarchy

John Locke’s key ideas as it pertains to natural rights and the consent of the governed

people are free in the state of nature

Saratoga

America defeats British, getting French support

Valley Forge

George Washington's Continental Army during the American Revolution

causes and effects of shay’s rebellion

Causes: heavy post war taxes and debt; effects: showed government's inability to maintain order

checks and balances

Legislative, Executive, Judicial branches checking on each other so none become too powerful

how judicial review affects checks and balances

allowing courts to review laws and executive actions to make sure they align with the Constitution

federalism

a government system that separates power between a national authority and regional governments