People, Places, Things
Leading to Revolution
The Revolution
Vocabulary
Potpourri
100
This colonial region was defined by its staple crops such as tobacco and rice
What is the Southern colonial region.
100
The purpose of this was to avoid conflicts with Native Americans by stopping colonists from migrating west.
What is the Proclamation of 1763
100
The colonists gained confidence in their ability to fight the better-equipped and better-trained British at this battle.
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill
100
This weak plan of government allowed the states to retain too much power.
What is Articles of Confederation
100
Can be found in a bicameral legislature.
What is the House of Representatives and the Senate
200
This colonial region’s economy was based on livestock, shipping, and whaling.
What is the Northern colonial region.
200
The colonists responded to the Intolerable Acts with this.
What is the First Continental Congress.
200
The French entered the war as an ally of the Americans following the patriot victory at this battle.
What is Saratoga
200
The purpose of this was to encourage the orderly settlement and formation of new states.
What is the Northwest Ordinance
200
Has the power to appoint judges.
Who is the President
300
These limited the products that the British colonies were permitted to import.
What are the Navigation Acts
300
The following quote relates to this British law/act: “A man’s house is his castle; and while he is quiet, he is as well guarded as a prince in his castle…Customhouse officers may enter our houses when they please; we are commanded to permit their entry. Their menial servants may enter – may break locks, bars, everything in their way…”
What is the Writs of Assistance
300
With the help of the French navy, the Americans defeated the British at this battle.
What is the Battle of Yorktown
300
This proved that the Articles of Confederation were ineffective because central government was unable to maintain law and order.
What is Shays' Rebellion
300
This compromise was considered to be a victory four Southern delegates at the Constitutional Convention because slaves would be counted to increase the number of representatives on Congress.
What is the 3/5th Compromise
400
A dispute over this territory was a major cause of the French & Indian War.
What is the Ohio River Valley
400
Paul Revere's image of the Boston Massacre represents the event from this group's point of view.
What is the Patriot
400
This was the most important provision of the Treaty of Paris of 1783.
What is American Independence
400
The name of the agreement achieved at the Constitutional Convention: A bicameral legislature with equal representation on one section and proportional in the other.
What is the Great Compromise
400
This branch of government is responsible for writing bills.
What is the legislative branch.
500
In the following quotation, George Washington is referring to his experience at this winter encampment: “Unless some great…change suddenly takes place…this Army must inevitably be reduced to one or other of these three things. Starve, dissolve, or disperse in order to obtain subsistence in the best manner they can.”
What is Valley Forge
500
The intended meaning of this cartoon was to encourage the colonies to unite and fight the French.
What is the Join or Die cartoon (Albany Plan of Union)
500
The location of the battles of Trenton and Princeton.
What is New Jersey
500
This guarantees that one branch would not become too powerful.
What is the system of Checks and Balances
500
Divides the power between federal and state governments.
What is Federalism.
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