The French and Indian War is also known as this.
What is the Seven Years' War?
The end of this is one of the primary reasons for the Revolutionary War.
What is salutary neglect?
These two branches of government did not exist under the Articles of Confederation.
What are the Judicial and Executive branches?
This is where 55 delegates from 12 states met to revise the Articles of Confederation.
What is Philadelphia?
This man was the first Secretary of the Treasury and devised a financial program that helped to put the United States on secure financial footing as well as strengthened the ties between states and the central government.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
This territory was claimed by both the French and the British and conflict here ultimately led to the French and Indian War.
What is the Ohio Valley?
This act required a tax on all printed items, from college diplomas, court documents, land titles, and contracts to newspapers, almanacs, and playing cards.
What is The Stamp Act?
The lack of power to do this, led to a fiscal crisis where the central government was nearly bankrupt by 1780.
What is the power to tax?
This was promised to the Antifederalists in order to get the Constitution ratified.
What are the Bill of Rights, the first 10 amendments to the Constitution?
This kerfuffle was in response to Hamilton's excise tax on alcohol.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
This man led an expedition into the Ohio Valley to reassert British claims over the region.
Who is George Washington?
Kerfuffles at these two towns are often thought of as the beginning of the American Revolution.
What is Lexington and Concord?
This conflict in Massachusetts was about exorbitant tax increases that caused mobs of angry farmers to close the courts to prevent foreclosure on their farms.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
This plan called for the "supremacy of national authority," and based representation in the lower house of a bicameral legislature on population.
What is the Virginia plan?
War between the U.S. and Western Confederacy from 1785 to 1795 over control of the Northwest Territory.
What is the Northwest Indian War (also known as the Ohio War)?
This granted Britain the following territories: French Canada, all French territory east of the Mississippi River, Spanish Florida and recent conquests in Africa and India.
What is the Treaty of Paris, 1763?
American victory at this battle led to a military alliance with France.
What is the battle of Saratoga?
Negotiations with these Native Americans set an early precedent for treaties between NA and the US government.
Who are the Miami Native Americans?
This plan called for equal representation of all states in a unicameral legislation.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
During this Georgia legislators were bribed to sell most of the land now making up the state of Mississippi to four land companies for $500,000, far below its market value
What is the Yazoo Land Scandal?
This plan proposed one general government be formed in America that includes all of the colonies to help the British counter French Expansion.
What is the Albany Plan of Union?
This is the idea that colonists had representation in Parliament because there were transatlantic merchants and West Indian sugar planters as members.
What is virtual representation?
This prohibited slavery and earmarked funds from land sales for the support of schools. It also set the population requirement to become a state at 60,000.
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
These were a series of essays written in New York advocating for the ratification of the Constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers?
This deal secured an ally for the young U.S. government and returned more than a million acres to Native Americans.
What is the Pickering Treaty?