The man who wrote "Common Sense" and was a key advocate for colonial independence.
Who was Thomas Paine?
100
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100
This is the year the Article of Confederation were sent to the colonies for ratification.
When was 1777?
100
This army had trouble in recruiting good soldiers to fight for them.
What was the Continental Army?
100
The system created by James Madison at the constitutional convetntion in 1787.
What is the system of checks and balances.?
200
The preceding advocate to Thomas Paine and writer of "The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved".
Who was James Otis?
200
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200
This "primitive" bill of rights granted those under the Articles of Confederation trial by jury, freedom of religion, and freedom from excessive punishment.
What was the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
200
The Revolutionary war lasted for this amount of years.
What is seven years?
200
This plan for the new government was to make modifications to the existing articles.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
300
This person wrote a letter to her husband saying that she would like women's rights to be included into the new version of the constitution after the Articles of Confederation were deemed "flawed".
Who was Abigail Adams?
300
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300
The growth of ______ led to the early "ghettoization" of blacks and, for similar reasons, other minorities.
What was racist publications and legislation?
300
A document signed at the end of 1782 that granted the US independence and generous territorial rights.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
300
This document took over four months to complete by delegates from all thirteen states.
What is the Constitution?
400
This person came up with the idea of the Virginia Plan.
Who was James Madison?
400
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400
This attempt to finance the war led to wild inflation.
What was the printing of more money?
400
The day the declaration was signed by members of Congress.
What was July 4, 1776?
400
These three braches of government are part of James Madison's system of checks and balances.
What is the executive, legislative, and judicial branch?
500
These three people authorized the publishing of The Federalist Papers.
Who was James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay?
500
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500
This large protest demonstration came as a wake-up call to most of the officals of the government of US. This conviced them that a stronger central government was necessary.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
500
The Alliance that brought the French into the war.
What was the Franco-American Alliance.
500
This group of people circulated a paper through New York state to sway their opinion of the new Constitution.