Ch.1 Sec.2 Answers

1.    The Iroquois confederation was a group of native Americans consisting of the Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida , Onondaga, and Seneca tribes which influenced American colonists to help form their government.
2.    sense the American colonists were about 3,000 miles away from Britain they could not take direct orders. So in a result they had to form their own government comprised of men the the people elected.

3.    After their french and Indian war King George III decided to tax the American colonists because the war was in part fought to protect the colonies. The colonists did not like this because they were used to not having to pay taxes.
4.    the king taxed all paper goods from legal documents to playing cards. After some time of this going on the the colonists became upset and thought that the tax was unjust. so in Boston a few men dressed as Mohawk Indians and threw the latest shipment of tea into the harbor as protest. the Stamp Act was later lifted and replaced with the Coercive Acts.

5.    The colonies unified against Britain and there harsh laws and taxes. The stamp act congress or first congress was comprised of representatives from the American colonies to protest the kings unfair taxes. the committees of correspondence was a shadow government fighting against what they thought was unjust. the first Continental congress did not allow trade with Britain. the second Continental congress managed the colonial war effort during the Revolutionary War they also appointed diplomats and created treaties.

6.    Thomas Paine wrote a famous pamphlet stating that people should have the right to govern themselves and that kings and queens shouldn't make laws the people should.