Governmental/Political Figures
Treaties, Acts, & Plans (Oh My!)
Revolutionary War
Constitution
Miscellaneous
100
He was the Secretary of the Treasury during the presidency of George Washington.
Who was Alexander Hamilton?
100
This act extended the waiting period for citizenship, and empowered the President to deport anyone suspected of being a danger in time of war. The other act made conspiracy and revolt illegal.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
100
The population of the U.S. at the time of the Revolutionary War.
What is 2.8 million?
100
Supporters of the ratification of the constitution.
Who were the Federalists?
100
George Washington was a young military officer in the French-Indian War, spied on the French in Canada, displayed Bravery despite losses. Congress's selection of Washington, a Virginian, as commander-in-chief in 1775 also sent a clear signal that there was widespread commitment to war beyond New England.
What is Why was he chosen to be the commander of the Continental Army and the first president?
200
American General who plotted to sell military secrets to the British.
Who was Benedict Arnold?
200
This set out a three branch government composed of a 2 chamber legislature, a powerful executive, and a judiciary.
What is the Virginia Plan?
200
The role of women when following the troops.
What is fetching water, nursing, and food?
200
Lists of basic individual liberties that government could not violate.
What is the Bill of Rights?
200
The British had military experience, a military school, assistance from Native Americans and at least 1/3 Americans, the strongest government in the world, lots of money, the strongest army, many officers, and the British navy ruled the seas.
Why wasn't the Continental Army's victory in the war inevitable?
300
He presented the Virginia Plan to the Constitutional Convention and was the fourth president of the United States.
Who was James Madison?
300
1795 treaty between the United States and various Native American tribes in which the United States gave treaty goods valued at $25,000 and promised additional annual shipments of goods. In exchange, the Indians ceded most of Ohio to the Americans.
What is the Treaty of Greenville?
300
The role of women who stayed behind.
What is managing family and farms?
300
They demanded a Bill of Rights in exchange for ratification of the Constitution because of fear that a distant power would infringe on individual liberties.
Who were the Anti-federalists?
300
Name three(3) reasons why the founders of the U.S. determine that the Articles of Confederation were incapable of serving as the structure for the American government.
What is (1)no way to impose/collect taxes, (2)No army/Navy, (3)Civil Disorder: Shays Rebellion 1787.. (4) Post war economy in shambles (5) Lost market for raw good to British Empire--but British empire flooding US market with manufactured goods, (6) Outstanding war debts.
400
Borders were sketched for nine new states in his initial plan for the Northwest territory in 1784.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
400
Land act of 1787 that set forth the process by which settled territories would become states. It also banned slavery in the Northwest Territory.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
400
List Baron Von Steuben's contributions to the American troops during the Revolutionary War.
What is he taught them how lessen disease and sickness by practicing proper sanitation practices and He showed them how to simplify firing motions in battle?
400
A May 1787 meeting in Philadelphia composed to discuss the weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
400
Each of the three individual branches provides a counterweight to the other two branches. Neither the legislative, judicial, nor the executive branch may have more authority than the other two. Each branch of the Federal Government was granted enumerated powers by the Constitution, thus allowing for a structure of this.
What are checks and balances?
500
He wrote "Common Sense," a pamphlet that laid out the case for independence.
Who was Thomas Paine?
500
Name three (3) results of the Treaty of Paris (1783).
What is (1)ended the revolutionary war, (2)acknowledged American independence, (3)set the western boundary of the new country, (4)guaranteed creditors on both sides could collect debts in sterling money, (5)promised withdrawal of British troops from American soil?
500
American troops & a French fleet trapped the British army under the command of General Charles Cornwallis, cutting off supplies&back-up troops. 7,500 British troops battled a combined French&American army of 16,000 for twelve days. Realizing that escape was impossible, Cornwallis surrendered on 10/19/1781.
What is what made the British surrender at Yorktown in 1781?
500
These 4 are your First Amendment rights.
What is (1)Freedom of Religion, (2)Freedom of Speech, (3)Freedom of the Press, and (4)the right to assemble.
500
The 7 Years War and the Treaty of Paris (1783) have this in common.
What is the failure to recognize Native Americans as part of the conflict?
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