Chapter 4 - Colonial America
Who founded Pennsylvania as a colony known for religious tolerance?
Who is William Penn?
What country controlled the thirteen American colonies before independence?
Who is Great Britain?
Who was the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army?
Who is George Washington?
What was the first national government for the United States?
What is the Articles of Confederation?
Who became the first president of the United States?
Who is George Washington?
What economic system held that colonies should benefit their mother country?
What is Mercantilism?
What 1765 act taxed newspaper, legal documents, and other printed materials?
What is the Stamp Act?
Who wrote the principal draft of the Declaration of Independence?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
What 1787 meeting was held in Philadelphia to address problems with the national government?
What is the Constitutional Convention?
What 1803 land purchase doubled the size of the United States?
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
What term describes Britain's loose enforcement of colonial trade laws?
What is Salutary Neglect?
What phrase did colonists use to protest taxation without elected representatives in Parliament?
What is "No taxation without representation"?
What pamphlet written by Thomas Payne encouraged colonists to support independence?
What is Common Sense?
What rebellion in Massachusetts exposed weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation?
What is Shays' Rebellion?
What 1794 rebellion challenged the federal government's authority to collect taxes on distilled spirits (whiskey)?
What is Whiskey Rebellion?
What religious movement emphasized personal faith and challenged established religious authority in the colonies?
What is The Great Awakening?
What 1773 protest involved colonists throwing British tea into Boston Harbor?
What is the Boston Tea Party?
What 1777 American victory helped convince France to support the American Revolution?
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
What compromise created a two-house Congress with equal representation in the Senate and population-based representation in the House?
What is the Great Compromise?
What 1803 Supreme Court case established the principle of judicial review?
What is Marbury vs Madison?
What 1739 rebellion by enslaved Africans in South Carolina resulted in stricter slave laws?
What is Stono Rebellion?
What 1774 meeting brought representatives from twelve colonies together to respond to British policies?
What is the First Continental Congress?
What 1783 treaty officially ended the Revolutionary War and recognized American independence?
What was the name of the group that opposed ratification of the Constitution because it feared a powerful central government?
What is the Anti-Federalists?
What British practice of forcibly taking sailors into naval service contributed to the War of 1812?
What is Impressment?