You Are the Father
This Founding Father proposed a national bank and a federal plan to assume state debts.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
This system required colonists to supply raw materials to their mother country and purchase its manufactured goods.
What is mercantilism?
This 1773 protest involved colonists destroying East India Company tea to resist British taxation and trade policy.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This document served as the first national framework of government for the United States.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
These first ten amendments protect individual liberties and restrict the power of the federal government.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This 1676 uprising in Virginia revealed tensions between frontier settlers and the colonial elite over land and Native relations, but also contains the name of one of Ms. Denny's favorite breakfast foods.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
Known as the Father of the Constitution, this Virginian helped design the federal government and authored several Federalist Papers.
Who is James Madison?
This religious movement of the 1730s and 1740s challenged established churches and encouraged individuals to question authority.
What is the Great Awakening?
This 1777 American victory persuaded France to formally ally with the United States.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This 1786-1787 Massachusetts uprising exposed the weaknesses of the national government under the Articles.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
This 1787 compromise established a bicameral Congress with proportional representation in one chamber and equal state representation in the other.
What is the Great Compromise/Connecticut Compromise?
Ms. Denny loves a good standard. How many standards do we have in our APUSH Class?
What is 6 standards?
This Founding Father wrote Common Sense, arguing that the colonies should declare independence from Britain.
Who is Thomas Paine?
This British policy of loosely enforcing colonial trade regulations helped the colonies develop traditions of self-government before 1763.
What is Salutary Neglect?
This 1783 agreement formally ended the Revolutionary War and recognized American independence.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This 1787 law established a process for admitting new states and prohibited slavery in the Northwest Territory.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
These essays written by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay defended ratification of the Constitution.
What are The Federalist Papers?
Before becoming a breakout character in a hit Lin-Manuel Miranda musical, this French aristocrat and military officer forged a real-life lifelong bond with Alexander Hamilton while serving together on George Washington’s staff.
Who is Marquis de Lafayette?
This Founding Father drafted the Declaration of Independence and later opposed Hamilton's vision of federal power.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This 1776 pamphlet used accessible language to convince colonists that independence from Britain was necessary.
What is Common Sense?
On April 19, 1775, the first shots of the American Revolution were fired in these two Massachusetts towns.
What are Lexington and Concord?
This 1794 rebellion against a federal excise tax demonstrated Washington's willingness to enforce federal law.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
This 1787 agreement determined how enslaved people would be counted for congressional representation and taxation.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
Ms. Denny loves it when people remember their writing structure. What sentences are included in a DBQ body paragraph?
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This Founding Father negotiated the Treaty of Paris of 1783, represented Pennsylvania at the Constitutional Convention, and proposed the Albany Plan of Union.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This 1494 agreement divided claims to newly encountered lands outside Europe between Spain and Portugal.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
The surrender of British General Cornwallis at this 1781 Virginia siege effectively marked the end of major combat operations in the American Revolutionary War.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
These two early political parties disagreed over federal power, economic policy, and relations with France and Britain.
What are the Federalists and Democratic-Republicans?
These political statements drafted by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in 1798 declared that the federal Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional.
What are the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions?
This AP Standard focuses on student's ability to identify and explain relevant contextual information.
What is AP4?