Resistance and Revolution
Three of these acts closed the port of Boston, limited Massachusetts self-government, and moved trials of some royal officials to Britain, respectively.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
This otherwise unsuccessful writer galvanized the colonies with the publishing of his pamphlet "Common Sense."
Who is Thomas Paine?
In Washington's Farewell Address, he argued against the establishment of political parties, though this was no use - these two had already formed.
What is the Haitian Revolution?
Regional differences started to grow in the US, with the biggest split being between these two regions.
What is North and South?
This proclamation barred settlement on the other side of the Appalachian Mountains, frustrating colonists.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This future president is considered the "Father of the Constitution," being one of its main drafters and advocates.
Who is James Madison?
These Acts were meant to favor Federalists in elections and probably violated the Constitution.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
This idea that people must consent to their own government, or the government should be overthrown, greatly influenced revolutionary leaders in the colonies.
What is the social contract?
These pieces of media became important elements of American culture, being sources of communication and debate.
What are newspapers?
This battle is said to be the "turning point" of the Revolutionary War.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This Founding Father started the French and Indian War by attacking the French Fort Duquesne (near modern-day Pittsburgh).
Who is George Washington?
What is 3/5?
After the Revolutionary War, all states expanded voting to this group of people.
Who are white male property owners?
After the American Revolution, this new role for women evolved where they would teach revolutionary ideas to their children.
What is Republican Motherhood?
This percentage of colonists stayed loyal to the British during the Revolutionary War.
What is 25%? (Plus or minus 5%)
This revolutionary leader created "Committees of Correspondence" to report on British activity.
Who is Samuel Adams?
This law organized the US's new territories around the Great Lakes, giving it limited self-government and providing a way for its land to be sold off.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
Although some measures against slavery passed after the Revolutionary War, most believed that Black people could never live with white people, arguing instead for this process.
What is a return to Africa?
This invention massively increased cotton production in the United States, furthering its North-South split.
What is the cotton gin?
What is Albany?
This American leader proposed a plan to assume state debts and establish a national bank.
The 3rd Amendment to the US Constitution banned this in peacetime - something that had angered colonists before the Revolutionary War.
What is quartering (of soldiers)?
Native Americans continually lost land to settlers after the Revolutionary War, culminating in this battle.
What is the Battle of Fallen Timbers?
American population boomed after the Revolutionary War, mainly for this reason.
What is natural population growth?