French and Indian War
This line prevented colonists from expanding beyond the Appalachian Mountains after the French and Indian War.
What is the Proclamation Line of 1763
This event occurred in 1770 in Boston, in direct defiance of the Tea Act.
What is the Boston Tea Party
These two branches of government did not exist under the Articles of Confederation.
What are the Judicial and Executive branches?
This city 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 man led an expedition into the Ohio Valley to reassert British claims over the region.
Who is George Washington?
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 plan called for equal representation of all states in a unicameral legislation.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
This kerfuffle was in response to Hamilton's excise tax on alcohol.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
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?
Thomas Paine wrote this pamphlet, which influenced colonists to join the Revolution
What is Common Sense
This established the principle that territories could become states as their populations grew.
What is the Land Ordinance of 1785?
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?
This agreement between Britain and the U.S. ignored America's claim that "free ships make free goods," and accepted Britain's right to stop neutral ships.
What is Jay's Treaty?
The French and Indian War is also known as this.
What is the Seven Years War?
This was the first man to die in the Boston Massacre
Who is Crispus Attucks
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?
This was promised to the Anti-federalists in order to get the Constitution ratified.
What are the Bill of Rights, the first 10 amendments to the Constitution.
This man was responsible for getting the Alien and Sedition Acts passed and was the only Federalist president.
Who is John Adams?
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?
The Boston Tea Party caused a series of punitive laws called this.
What are the Intolerable Acts
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 Shays' Rebellion?
These were a series of essays written in New York advocating for the ratification of the Constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers?
The election in this year saw the peaceful transfer of power between opposing parties and served as proof that the republican experiment would work.
What is the Election of 1800?