The Opposition
How the Sons of Liberty responded to the Intolerable Acts in 1773.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
How England economically punished the colonies following the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
Government body for the colonists during the Revolutionary war.
What is the Second Continental Congress?
How Jefferson doubled the land area of the United States in 1803.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
When was the Bill of Rights ratified?
When is 1791?
Proposed in 1789
An event that further fueled the anger of the colonists against the British.
What is the Boston Massacre?
Act that prohibited American trading with foreign powers signed by President Thomas Jefferson.
What is the Embargo Act?
Portrayed in the Hamilton song "Non-Stop," these were written in support of the Constitution
What are the Federalist Papers?
When did Jefferson get elected president?
What is the Election of 1800?
The primary role women played in the American Revolution inspired by philosophers like Rousseau.
What is Republican motherhood?
What is the Battle of Fallen Timbers?
Signed by Thomas Jefferson, these acts tightened the requirements to become a citizen as well as restrictions to freedom of speech towards government officials.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
American citizens against the ratification of the Constitution such as Thomas Jefferson.
Who are the anti-federalists?
Under the governance of the Articles of Confederation, this event was comprised of farmers and war veterans protesting high taxes and overall economic hardships.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
Who was Jay's Treaty between?
Who are the United States and Great Britain?
A plot stemmed from Congress's inability to pay soldiers; stopped by George Washington.
What is the Newburgh Conspiracy?
An act that enforced a tax on paper products that led to the colonists to unify against the British -who imposed the tax.
What are the Stamp Act and Stamp Act Congress?
Where the Constitution was drafted as a replacement to the (weak) Articles of Confederation.
What is the Philadelphia Convention?
Case that gave the Supreme Court the power to declare laws unconstitutional.
Bonus: What is the name of this principle?
What is Marbury v. Madison?
What is judicial review?
Which occurred first? Washington's Farewell Address or Kentucky & VA Resolves?
What is Washington's Farewell Address?
The turning point in the American Revolution that led to the victory of the colonists.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
A financial plan created by the most well-known Treasurer of State to establish a line of credit for the USA.
What is funding and assumption?
The 1787 decision that led to a bicameral legislature as well as the number of state representatives and senators.
What is the Great (Connecticut) Compromise?
This violent 3-year conflict was in response to high taxes on domestic products within the United States.
What is the Whisky Rebellion?
Which happened first? Pinckney's Treaty or XYZ Affair?
What is the XYZ Affair?