French and Indian War
American Revolution
Articles of Confederation
The Constitution
Early Years of the Republic
100
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?
100

Due to increased debt after the French and Indian War, Britain ended this policy of loosely enforcing trade regulations in the colonies.

What is salutary neglect?

100
These two branches of government did not exist under the Articles of Confederation.
What are the Judicial and Executive branches?
100

This Compromise created a bicameral legislature

What is the Great Compromise?

100
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?
200
This man led an expedition into the Ohio Valley to reassert British claims over the region.
Who is George Washington?
200

This author's pamphlet was one of the most convincing arguments for declaring independence, as it brought Enlightenment ideas to the common man

Who is Thomas Paine?

200
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?
200

This plan called for equal representation of all states in a unicameral legislation.

What is the New Jersey Plan?

200

This kerfuffle was in response to Hamilton's excise tax on alcohol, and it proved the new Constitution was effective in enforcing the right of the new government to tax

What is the Whiskey Rebellion?

300

Benjamin Franklin created the "Join or Die" cartoon in an attempt to get the colonies to join together in this plan for a unified governing group among the colonies during the French and Indian War

What is the Albany Plan of Union?

300
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?
300

The original purpose of the Constitutional Convention was to revise the Articles of Confederation. This state boycotted and refused to send delegates out of fear of a stronger central government

Who was Rhode Island

300

A compromise over elections and fear of tyranny of the majority led to the creation of this to select the President of the US in each election cycle 

What is the Electoral College?

300

In this treaty with Spain, the United States ensured the “right to deposit” in New Orleans

What is Pinckney's Treaty?

400

Conflicts between Natives and colonists moving west led Britain to pass this, banning settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains

What is the Proclamation Act of 1763?

400

Over frustration of increased British taxes, the 1st Continental Congress called for a complete this of British goods

What is a boycott?

400

This (only?) accomplishment of the Articles of Confederation established the process by which territories could become states as their populations grew, and it prohibited slavery in the territory between the Mississippi River, Ohio River, and Great Lakes.

What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?

400

The addition of this alleviated fears of a too-powerful central government, and led Anti-Federalists to agree to support ratification of the Constitution

What are the Bill of Rights, the first 10 amendments to the Constitution.

400
This man was responsible for getting the Alien and Sedition Acts passed and was the only Federalist president.
Who is John Adams?
500

This act, the first direct tax in the colonies, was intended to pay for debts from the French and Indian War, as well as troops that remained stationed in the colonies. Instead it was repealed after less than a year.

What is the Stamp Tax?

500
American victory at this battle led to a military alliance with France.
What is the battle of Saratoga?
500
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?
500

These were a series of essays written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison (under a pseudonym) advocating for the ratification of the Constitution.

What are the Federalist Papers?

500
This saw the peaceful transfer of power between opposing parties and served as proof that the republican experiment would work.
What is the "Revolution of 1800?"
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