British soldiers shot into a crowd of angry colonists. This was later used as propaganda to anger the colonies.
What is The Boston Massacre?
100
The rights to life, liberty, and property. Later changed to pursuit of happiness.
What is natural rights?
100
General, Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution. Later named the first President of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
100
Fought between the colonies of British America and New France, with both sides supported by military units from their parent countries of Great Britain and France, as well as Native American allies.
What is Seven Years' (French and Indian) War?
100
An agreement among all thirteen original states in the United States of America that served as its first constitution. Drafted by a committee appointed by the Second Continental Congress, ratified in late 1777. Later replaced by the Constitution of the United States of America.
What is The Articles of Confederation?
200
Meant to punish colonists colonists who dumped tea in the Boston Harbor.
What is Intolalerable Acts?
200
The principle that the authority of a state and its government is created and sustained by the consent of its people, through their elected representatives (Rule by the People).
What is popular soverignty?
200
Founder of the Federalist Party, Co-author of The Federalist Papers, First Secretary of the Treasury.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
200
Head to head battle between the British and Americans in country side, Americans win by a lot and show they have a chance.
What is Battle of Saratoga?
200
The collective name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
What is Bill of Rights?
300
After defeating the French/Indian. Parliament used tax to get more money.
What is Stamp Act?
300
3 agents from France try to bribe Americans who came as ambassadors to see the rulers of France common in Europe but Americans took offense and John Adams published what happened for all Americans to see decreasing support of republicans because they are Franco files.
What is XYZ Affair?
300
Government's chief treasury official. He acquired money from other countries for the war.
Who is Robert Morris?
300
A battle in which French and American troops and a French fleet trapped the British army under the command of General Charles Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
300
The statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 4, 1776.
What is The Declaration of Independence?
400
This act costed hundred thousands pounds of tea. It made King George the third rage. There was a tax on all tea from NE.
What is Boston tea party/Tea Act?
400
Line drawn by British Parliament, colonists not allowed to settle past Appalachian mountains.
What is The Proclamation of 1763?
400
Stopped Burgoyne's troops from reaching Benedict Arnold at Saratoga.
Who is General Horatio Gates?
400
An attack on Shawnee Indians at Prophetstown on the Tippecanoe River in 1811 by American forces
What is the Battle of Tippecanoe?
400
1783 ended the American Revolutionary War
Granted the land British gave Indians as American land
now American colonies recognized as their own independent country.
What is Treaty of Paris?
500
British law that established new duties on tea, glass, lead, paper, and painters’ colors imported into the colonies.
What is the Townshend Acts?
500
An essay by James Madison in The Federalist (1787–1788) that challenged the view that republican governments only worked in small polities
What is Federalist No. 10?
500
Wrote Letters From a Farmer in Pennsylvania. Was very influential.
Who is John Dickinson?
500
Battle that should not have happened because the Treaty of Ghent had been previously signed a week before, ending the war.
What is the Battle of New Orleans?
500
New format of government focuses more on a central national power and less on states 3 branch government that limit each other.