Time Period Personalities
British Authority in the Colonies
During the Revolutionary War...
America Under the Articles of Confederation
The Constitution
100
Inventor, Diplomat, Delegate to the 1st and 2nd Continental Congress, Philly's own.
Who is Benjamin Franklin
100
These were required to be affixed to all legal documents, newspapers, playing cards, and so forth as a way to raise revenue in the colonies for the protection of a standing British army.
What are stamps
100
The military and financial support to America from this European nation was what many historians consider to be the key to the defeat of Britain
What is France
100
Concern over the state of Massachusetts inability to put down an insurrection by this man led many state leaders to believe that the Articles needed to be "revised"
Who is Daniel Shays
100
This state's plan for the federal government included a popular-elected legislative branch, an executive branch, and a judicial branch.
What is Virginia
200
Lawyer, Massachusetts delegate, defender of independence from Britain at the 2nd Continental Congress
Who is John Adams
200
The first "luxury good" taxed by the British in 1764. It elicited numerous complaints from American merchants who had taken advantage of smuggling it to and from the French during the period of Salutary Neglect.
What is sugar
200

This colony held the location of the famous camp where Washington & the Continental Army experienced the "darkest days" of the war.

What is Pennsylvania

200
While the Confederated Congress WAS able to wage war and make foreign alliances for the Confederated American States, it was legally forbidden to do this key "fund-raising" job.
What is taxation
200
One of the biggest compromises at the Convention, each state would receive representatives based on their population but would only have THIS number of senators regardless of how many people lived in their state.
What is two
300

He called for a "revision" of the Articles of Confederation; he was a huge proponent of the strong central government

Who is Alexander Hamilton

300
This was the one British import to the colonies that was not repealed in the Townshend Acts.
What is tea.
300
About 1/3 of the American population was made up of this group. Britain's failure to "mobilize"/"utilize" their forces is considered to be a major factor in the end result of the war.
Who are the "loyalists"
300
The Confederated Congress held all the "power" of the federal government; missing was a national court system and this "enforcement" branch that would later be added by the Constitution.
What is the Executive Branch
300
Hamilton was fond of this power of Congress which allowed them to pass "all necessary and proper laws" for the benefit of the nation, also nicknamed this clause.
What is the "elastic clause".
400

Well known for authoring the Declaration of Independence; additionally, he was a strong proponent of the Bill of Rights

Who is Thomas Jefferson

400
As a warning to the colonial leaders about any "illegal meetings" (such as the Stamp Act Congress), Parliament passed this measure intended to make sure that ALL Parliamentary laws and royal proclamations WERE to be respected in the colonies.
What is the Declaratory Act
400

This decisive victory from the Continental Army persuaded France to join in on the war effort against the British

What is Saratoga

400
One of the few "successes" of the Confederated Congress under the Articles; it set the standard for admitting new states (population of 60,000 free men) and set a "dividing line" for free and slave states at the Ohio River.
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787
400
In order to gain South Carolina and Georgia's "buy-in", the federal government agreed not to interfere in the trans-Atlantic slave trade for this period of time.
What is 20 years
500

Ottawa chief who led several raids and attacks against British forts and American colonial outposts in the Western territory after the French and Indian War

Who is Pontiac

500

These groups wrote a series of letters between colonies during the Revolution, informing colonists of atrocities committed by the British.

What is the Committees of Correspondence

500

This British general was defeated at the Battle of Yorktown in Virginia when his troops were surrounded on both land and sea.

Who is General Cornwallis

500

To ratify an amendment to the Articles of Confederation, this NUMBER of states had to agree.

What is thirteen

500
Of all those who angrily disagreed with the ratification of the Constitution, he was the only one who signed his name to the Anti-Federalist cause.
Who is Patrick Henry
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