All About the F+I
Territorial disputes between England and France in the Ohio River Valley.
What are causes of the French and Indian War?
A tax on most printed documents in the colonies
What is the Stamp Act (1765)?
Thomas Paine's book written to convince colonists to separate from Britain.
A farmer in western Mass organizes men to stop the state from imprisoning men who could not pay taxes.
What was Shays' Rebellion?
Probably the worst agreement the US government ever signed off on.
What is Jay's Treaty?
This is the treaty that ended the F+I War.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
March 5, 1770: British soldiers and citizens of Boston clash; five Bostonians killed.
What is the Boston Massacre?
Lexington and Concord.
What are the towns where the first shots were fired?
Our first system of government, with a weak national structure
What are the Articles of Confederation?
Some French dudes agree to negotiate with the US if we pay them some cash.
What is the XYZ affair?
Britain draws a line on the map and says colonists cannot settle west of it
Proclamation of 1763
The British announce that the East India Tea Company has a monopoly on tea in the colonies.
What is the Tea Act?
At this meeting, Washington was selected as the leader of the Continental Army.
What is the Second Continental Congress?
The name of the documents written to support the constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers?
We shoot at France, they shoot back. Nothing official.
What is the Quasi-War?
An idea by Ben Franklin for inter-colonial government, only adopted by 7 colonies.
What is the Albany Plan of Union?
A series of acts in response to the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
At this meeting, we were not calling for independence yet.
What is the First Continental Congress?
A snowman going through some things
What is the 8th Amendment?
One of the two things Washington warned about in his Farewell address.
What are foreign entanglements and political parties?
A local chief organized tribes in the Great Lakes area to fight against colonial expansion.
What is Pontiac's Rebellion?
What is the Townshend Act?
This battle was the real turning point in the war, because the French allied with us after we won.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
Federalists agreed to this to convince anti-Federalists to ratify the constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The specific act that made it a crime to speak out against the Adams administration
What is the Sedition Act?