Pog Rockers
This RADICAL rebel led the US Army against Britain during the Revolution.
Who is George Washington?
This "big deal" was one of several agreements made to create the US Constitution.
What is the Great Compromise?
This document created a weak central government.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
A government in which citizens rule through elected representatives.
What is a republic?
A settlement of a dispute by each party giving up some demands.
What is a compromise?
This absolute MAD LAD was a naval officer who raided British ports during the revolution. When a British ship asked him to surrender, he replied "I have not yet begun to fight." In the end, the British ship was the one to surrender.
Who is John Paul Jones?
This plan favored the larger states.
What is the Virginia Plan?
This law passed by the Confederation government allowed territories to claim statehood once they reached a certain population.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
Having two separate lawmaking chambers.
What is bicameral?
Having the proper size in relation to other objects or items.
What is proportional?
This RAD spy was so punk rock, even the British didn't notice him stealing their information and sending it to the Continental Army, almost singlehandedly ensuring victory at the Battle of Yorktown.
Who is James Armistead?
This plan called for a single (unicameral) legislative house.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
The Articles did nothing to address this practice, which the ideals of the Revolution had called into question.
What is slavery?
To approve officially.
What is ratify?
The freeing of individual enslaved persons.
What is manumission?
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
The Great Compromise called for a lower house that would have delegates _______ to the population of each state, and an upper house with ______ representation of each state.
What is proportional and equal?
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 created these five territories, which would eventually become states in the 19th century.
What are Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin?
An attempt to force surrender by blocking movement of people or goods into or out of a place.
What is a siege?
When economic activity SLOWS DOWN.
What is a depression?
This guy was TOO COOL for the regular rebels, preferring to rebel against the rebels during a rebellion named after him. (They lost, but it's the thought that counts.)
Who is Daniel Shays?
This was the year the Constitutional Convention convened.
What is 1787?
In the 1790s Congress created the Mississippi Territory from land west of Georgia, which was treated much the same as the Northwest Territory, except that this practice was allowed.
What is slavery?
"You're a pirate!"
"We prefer the term _______, since we only prey on merchant ships from a country we're at war with."
What is privateer?
By jove, this same box of sugar used to cost 2 Continentals, but now it costs 379? I might go back to the king this point -- I can't believe the currency has _________ this much!
What is depreciate?