3.5 P1
This 1775 battle is generally considered the beginning of the American Revolutionary War.
What is Lexington and Concord?
This 1781 battle effectively ended major fighting in the Revolution when British General Cornwallis surrendered to American and French forces.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
This revolutionary idea challenged the institution of slavery by arguing that all people possessed natural rights.
What is equality?
This was the first written constitution of the United States and created a government with a deliberately weak central authority.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
Under the Articles, Congress had no separate executive branch or national court system, leaving this one branch as the main part of the national government.
What is the legislative branch?
This 1776 pamphlet by Thomas Paine encouraged colonists to support independence from Britain.
What is Common Sense?
This 1783 agreement officially ended the Revolutionary War and required Britain to recognize American independence.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This ideal described the expectation that women would raise children to understand civic virtue and the responsibilities of citizenship.
What is Republican Motherhood?
Under the Articles, each state received this number of votes in Congress, regardless of its population or size.
What is one vote?
This Massachusetts uprising of 1786–1787 involved indebted farmers protesting high taxes, debt, and property seizures.
What is Shays’ Rebellion?
This document, largely written by Thomas Jefferson, formally announced the colonies' independence from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This 1773 protest involved colonists dumping British tea into Boston Harbor to oppose taxation without representation.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This invention in 1793 increased the profitability of cotton and helped cause the demand for enslaved labor to rise again.
What is the cotton gin?
This important action was denied to Congress under the Articles, making it difficult for the national government to pay its debts.
What is the power to tax?
The inability of the national government to effectively respond to Shays’ Rebellion demonstrated this major weakness of the Articles.
What is the weakness of the national government?
This European nation provided crucial military and financial assistance to the American colonists during the Revolution.
What is France?
This group of colonists remained loyal to Great Britain during the American Revolution and were sometimes called Tories.
Who are the Loyalists?
Revolutionary ideals from the United States helped inspire this 1791–1804 revolution, in which enslaved people successfully overthrew French colonial rule.
What is the Haitian Revolution?
This 1785 law created a system for surveying and selling western lands and helped organize settlement of the territory.
What is the Land Ordinance of 1785?
These new governments created by the former colonies generally emphasized legislative power and often limited voting rights through property requirements. (Were often changed/Amended)
What are state constitutions?
This 1777 American victory convinced France that the Americans had a realistic chance of defeating Britain and helped lead to the French-American alliance.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
Despite Britain's superior military and financial resources, this combination of factors helped the Patriots win the war, including Washington's leadership, colonial resistance, and European assistance.
What are the major factors behind the American victory?
This woman advocated for women by writing a letter to her Husband, asking him to "rememeber the ladies"
Who is Abigail Adams?
This 1787 law established a process for territories to become states and banned slavery in the Northwest Territory.
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
Problems involving interstate trade, finances, foreign relations, and internal unrest eventually led many Americans to call for this change to the national government.
What is a stronger central/federal government?