This act required a tax on all printed items
What is The Stamp Act?
This plan called for equal representation of all states in a unicameral legislation.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
This outbreak of violence was in response to Hamilton's excise tax on alcohol.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
This plan proposed that a single government be formed in America, with all the colonies joining together, to help the British counter French Expansion.
What is the Albany Plan of Union?
Series of acts created to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party and other tax-evading measures (tarring and feathering, blame for the Boston Massacre, etc.) NEED BOTH NAMES
What are the Intolerable Acts/ Coercive Acts
This established the principle that territories could become states as their populations grew.
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1784.
This plan called for State representation based on population of each state
What is the Virginia plan?
Two key issues that prompted a diplomatic breakdown between the Early American Republic and the British Empire involved the British occupation of these and the British doing what to U.S. sailors (need correct term)
What is the occupation of border forts and the impressment of U.S. sailors
Outbreak of violence at these two towns is often thought of as the beginning of the American Revolution.
What is Lexington and Concord?
Number of states that were needed to amend the articles under the Articles of Confederation
All/Unanimous
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 man was responsible for getting the Alien and Sedition Acts passed and was seen as highly controversial
Who is John Adams?
These were a series of essays written by James Madison and Alexander Hamilton advocating for the ratification of the Constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers?
An unofficial war between American and French ships between 1798 and 1801, and the reason the war was being fought.
What is the Quasi War and Impressment