Pre-Revolutionary Personalities
British Authority in the Colonies
Thomas Jefferson
Articles of Confederation
Creating the Constitution
100
Inventor, Diplomat, Delegate to the 1st and 2nd Continental Congress, Philly's own.
Who is Ben 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
Jefferson's Political Party
What is Republicans, Jeffersonian Republicans, or Democratic-Republicans.
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
This was the one British import to the colonies that was not repealed in the Townshend Acts.
What is tea.
200
These are the people Congress sent to France in order to buy New Orleans and Florida from the French.
Who is Robert Livingston and James Monroe.
200
The 2nd Continental Congress adopted the Articles in this year; they would not be ratified by the necessary number of states, however, until 1781.
What is 1777
200
Delegate of Virginia whose notes provide us with much of the secret goings-on.
Who is James Madison
300
British Prime Minister, responsible for the defense of the British colonies during the French and Indian War.
Who is William Pitt
300
These were hated institutions set up by the British to cut down on colonial smuggling and reinforce British authority over the trade between the colonies and Britain.
What are vice-admirality courts
300
This court case created judicial review, which the Supreme Court can determine whether a law is unconstitutional or not.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
300
This was act was considered to be the greatest accomplishment of the Confederated Congress under the Articles of Confederation in terms of organizing new US territories.
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787
300
This Connecticut Delegate proposed the "Great Compromise" which created a 2 house legislature (one based on population, the other on equal representation)
Who is Roger Sherman
400
Ottawa chief who led several raids and attacks against British forts and colonial outposts in the Western territory.
Who is Pontiac
400
This action gave Parliament the full authority to make laws for the colonies "in all cases whatsoever".
What is Declaratory Act
400
What were the two cities that were the capital of the nation before Washington D.C.?
What is NYC and Philadelphia?
400
For a "major decision" to be settled by the Confederation Congress, the Articles required that this number of states be in agreement.
What is 9 states
400
According to the 3/5ths Compromise, the federal government agreed not to interfere in the "importation of slaves" for this fixed amount of time.
What is 20 years
500
Virginia Representative to the Second Contintental Congress; officially proposed independence from Great Britain
Who is Richard Henry Lee
500
As part of the Coercive Acts (aka the "Intolerable Acts") of 1774, this particular section protected British officials from being tried in colonial courts by sending them back to Britain or Canada for trial.
What is the Administration of Justice Act
500
TJ serves as this in Washington's cabinet.
What is Secretary of State?
500
According to the Northwest Ordinance, this was the "magic number" of a territory's population of free white men which would allow it to apply for statehood.
What is 60,000
500
On June 21st 1788, this state became the 9th to ratify the Constitution, officially making it the supreme law of the land.
What is New Hampshire
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