Causes of the American Revolution
War that led Britain to increase taxes on the colonies
What is the French and Indian War?
First battles of the American Revolution.
What are Lexington and Concord?
Document that declared independence from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
1787 meeting to create a new U.S. government.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
First President of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
This 1765 law taxed printed materials and outraged colonists
What is the Stamp Act?
Turning point battle that convinced France to help the colonists.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
Author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Compromise that settled representation in Congress.
What is the Great Compromise?
Washington warned against these in his Farewell Address.
What are political parties and foreign alliances?
The colonists' rallying cry against taxation.
What is “No taxation without representation”?
Final major battle of the war in 1781.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
First governing document of the United States.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
Compromise that counted enslaved people as partial population.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
First two political parties.
What are the Federalists and Democratic-Republicans?
Secret society that organized resistance to British policies.
What are the Sons of Liberty?
Treaty that ended the Revolutionary War.
What is the Treaty of Paris (1783)?
Weakness of the Articles that led to economic instability.
What is the lack of power to tax?
Papers written in support of ratifying the Constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers?
Law under Adams that targeted immigrants and critics of the government.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
Event where British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists in 1770.
What is the Boston Massacre?
Winter encampment where the Continental Army trained.
What is Valley Forge?
Event that highlighted the need for a stronger central government.
What is Shays’ Rebellion?
Group that demanded a Bill of Rights before ratification.
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
Idea that states can nullify federal laws, advanced in this resolution.
What are the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions? (The Dem-Rep response to the Alien and Sedition Acts)