Important Documents
Government document enacted by the newly formed United States that was unstable (and replaced later)
What are the Articles of Confederation?
The author of a very influential pamphlet in the American Revolution
Who is Thomas Paine?
An act passed by the British crown that led to the Boston Tea Party
What is the Tea Act?
First battle of the American Revolution
What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord?
War between the British and the Colonies
What is the American Revolution?
A collection of essays written by Jay, Hamilton, and Madison written to persuade the people to agree with ratifying the Constitution
What are the Federalist Papers?
The person that argued that people had the right to life, liberty, and property
Who is John Locke?
Incident where 5 people were killed, and was inflated to sound way worse than it actually was
What is the Boston Massacre?
Last battle of the American Revolution, where the British surrendered to the colonies
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
First person killed in an incident in Boston in 1770
Who is Crispus Attucks?
Speech written to warn early America of the political dangers of the world, suggesting that it stay neutral
What is Washington's Farewell Address?
The general of the British army that surrendered to the colonists
Who is General Cornwallis?
War between the British and the French (known in Europe as the 7 Years' War)
What is the French and Indian War?
Battle where the first form of a vaccine was used in America
What is Valley Forge?
Year that the Alien and Sedition Acts were enacted
What is 1798 CE?
Political statements drafted in 1798 and 1799 in which the Kentucky and Virginia legislatures took the position that the federal Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional.
What are the Kentucky-Virginia Resolutions?
The main author of the American Constitution
Who is James Madison?
Series of laws passed by the English Parliament to regulate shipping and maritime commerce in the Colonies
What are the Navigation Acts of 1763?
Rebellion enacted in protest to a certain tax, ultimately ending with the United States military taking action to stop it.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
First state to join the United States
What is Delaware?
Petition signed by Benjamin Franklin in 1790 asking for the abolition of slavery
What is the Petition from the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery?
The prime minister that proposed the Sugar and Stamp Acts
Who is George Grenville?
Policy of the British government in which trade regulations for the colonies were laxly enforced and imperial supervision of internal colonial affairs was loose as long as the colonies remained loyal to the British government
What is salutary neglect?
Rebellion in Virginia (1800) resulting in the state having much stricter laws against free blacks
What is Gabriel Prosser's Rebellion?
First British colony