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

The end of this British political policy was one of the primary reasons for the Revolutionary War.

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 is where 55 delegates from 12 states met to revise the Articles of Confederation.
What is Philadelphia?
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 famous future leader led an expedition into the Ohio Valley to reassert British claims over the region.

Who is George Washington?

200
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?
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.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
300

This plan proposed one general government be formed in America that includes all of the colonies to help the British counter French Expansion. It was inspired by the Iroquois Confederacy and named after the New York colonial capital. 

What is the Albany Plan of Union?

300

Collection of laws that included the Boston Harbor Act, the Quartering Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, and the Administration of Justice Act?

The Coercive/Intolerable Acts

300

This established the principle that territories could become states as their populations grew, and not colonies of the original 13 states.

What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1784?

300

This plan called for the "supremacy of national authority," and based representation on population.

What is the Virginia plan?

300

This international scandal involved the French taking American sailors hostage, asking for a bribe for them to be released, and resulted in the Quasi-War.

What is the XYZ Affair?

400
The French and Indian War is also known as this.
What is the Seven Years War?
400

Skirmishes at these two towns are often thought of as the beginning of the American Revolution in 1775.

What are Lexington and Concord?

400

This power left to the states would have been disastrous in the face of a military invasion.

What is the power to raise and maintain an army?

400
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.
400

George Washington warned about these two topics in his farewell address.

What are foreign intervention and political parties?

500

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?

500

American victory at this battle, thanks to France's aid, led to an end to the war.

What is the battle of Yorktown?

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 in New York advocating for the ratification of the Constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers?
500

This law restricted speech criticizing the government and tightened restrictions on immigrants. 

What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?

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