Acts/documents
The act that started the American revolution
What was the sugar act?
The first deaths of the American Revolution took place here,
What is the Boston Massacur
Person who commanded the continental Army, presidid over the constitutional convention and was the first precedent
Who was Gorge Washington?
Make amendments to the articles of confederation
What was the original purpose of the constitutional convention?
The act that made it illegal to colonize beyond the Appalachian mountains
What was the Proclamation of 1763?
The weak central government that early America used
What were the Articles of Confederation?
The first battle of the American Revolution
What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord
Pwrson who mainly wrote the Constitution
James Madison
person who took diligent note taking in the constitutional convention
Who is James Madison?
Ended the American Revolution
What was the Treaty of Paris Known for?
document that marked the biggining of the revolutionary war
What was the Declaration of independance
Turning point of the American Revolution.
What was the Battle of Saratoga?
Person Who mainly wrote the Declaration of Independence
Who was Thomas Jefferson
Person who presided over the constitutional convention
Who was George Washington
A bicameral legislative plan that proposed that representation would be based on population
What was the Virginia plan?
Document that ended the Revolutionary war
What was the treaty of Paris.
The last battle of the revolutionary war
The battle of Yorktown
Person who wrote the pamphlet called common sense
Thomas paine
first ten amendments that the anti federalists wanted or would not ratify
What was the bill of rights
No power to tax was a main problem.
What was a main problem of the articles of confederation ?
that document that America uses now
The condtutution
Known for suffering and killing around a third of the continental army
what is Winter of Vally forge
English Philosopher who Thomas Jefferson took inspiration from.
John Locke
Made to convince anti federalists to ratify the constitution.
What were federalist papers
No taxation without representation
What did the sons of liberty have as a slogan?