Legendary ride warning of an invasion is his claim to fame.
Who is Paul Revere?
100
This major event in the colonies forced Americans to work together prior to the Revolution against a common enemy.
What is the French/Indian War?
100
First attempt at a constitution in the newly formed United States.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
100
Several states ratified the Constitution on the condition that this would be added.
What is a "bill or rights"?
100
Would determine how slaves were counted for population purposes and how taxes would be accrued on them as well.
What is the 3/5 Compromise?
200
He wanted to "awe" the Americans into submission.
Who is William Howe?
200
This North Carolina movement fought against the colonial governor and the Eastern powers to stop foreclosures and high taxes; movement came to ahead with an encounter in Alamance County.
What is the Regulator movement?
200
Selected overwhelmingly as the leader of the Constitutional Convention meeting in Philadelphia.
Who is George Washington?
200
The last state of the original 13 colonies to ratify the Constitution.
What is Rhode Island?
200
The Constitution spelled this out about women's roles and rights in the government.
What is nothing?
300
His name is synonmous with traitorous behavior.
Who is Benedict Arnold?
300
This congress was the first attempt of the colonial governments to work together against the Indian menace; ended in abject failure.
What is the Albany Congress?
300
This plan called for a unicameral legislative body with each state having only one vote so all states were represented equally.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
300
His uprising in Massachusetts so concerned Washington and others that they determined that a constitutional convention was needed to address the weaknesses of the Articles.
What is Shay's Rebellion
300
Number of states' votes needed to amend the Articles of Confederation.
What is 13 or all?
400
His crusing defeat at Camden got him "fired" from his generalship in the South.
Who is Horatio Gates?
400
Americans desired "actual" representation in Parliament, but the British were content to give them this.
What is virtual representation?
400
Reconciled the Virginia plan and the New Jersey plan to give us our present day 2 houses of Congress.
What is the Great Compromise?
400
These men assumed the pen name of Publius in order to write articles to persuade states to ratify the Constitution
Who is James Madison, John Jay, and Alexander Hamilton?
400
This general was working with Howe to cut the colonies in half when Howe suddenly changed course, thereby leaving him to fend for himself.
Who is John Burgoyne?
500
He replaced Gates in the South and won several victories with his "Green Mountain Boys".
Who is Ethan Allen?
500
PA vigilante group formed to combat the Indian menace in the outlying areas.
What is the Paxton Boys?
500
The two questions that concerned James Madison when framing the Constitution.
What is the question of sovereignty and the question of limiting power?
500
Their concern was that a centralized government could become despotic and there was no "bill of rights" in the newly written Constitution.
Who are the anti-Federalists?
500
"...let it be brought forth placed on the divine law, the word of God; let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarchy, that in America THE LAW IS KING."