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Constitution
100
These acts intended to punish MA for the Boston tea party
What are the Coercive Acts?
100
This plan by Franklin was the first attempt at united government
What is the Albany Plan of Union?
100
This act was repealed after the Boston Massacre, to bring peace to the colonies temporarily
What is the Townshend Acts?
100
This is one main problem with the Confederation Congress
What is could not raise taxes?
100
This is the meaning of a federal system
What is power is divided between state and national governments?
200
This first constitution had a unicameral government
What are the Articles of Confederation?
200
This was the first act and showed how desperate the British were to raise money for their coffers
What is the Sugar Act?
200
Thomas Jefferson formed this Committee to unite the colonists
What is the Committees of Correspondence?
200
This was the fear of Shay's rebellion
What is the fact that the new republic might collapse?
200
This person is considered the Father of the Constitution because he kept good notes and records
Who was James Madison?
300
This ordinance disallowed slavery as the country expanded west
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
300
This is what happened on the Gaspee
What is the colonists burning a British ship?
300
These two acts made up the Intolerable Acts
What is the Coercive and Quebec Acts?
300
This was the result of Shay's rebellion
What is at attempt to revise the Articles?
300
This was the oldest statesman attending the Convention
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
400
This plan supported the large states
What is the Virginia Plan?
400
New France, Louisiana east of the Mississippi and Florida were all gained as a result of this war
What is the French and Indian War?
400
This is why the Battle of Saratoga was a turning point in the Revolution
What is the French supporting their troops to help the colonists?
400
This was the real battle of the Constitutional Convention
What is states rights v strong central government (which still exists today!)?
400
This person could not attend the Convention since he was in France
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
500
This person originated the Jersey plan for smaller states
Who was Paterson?
500
This is how the colonists responded to the Stamp Act
What is refusing to buy British goods?
500
This is what Spain got as a result of the American Revolution
What is Florida?
500
He was appointed the head of the Constitutional Convention
Who was Washington?
500
This was the cause of Shay's Rebellion
What is MA raised taxes and refused to print paper currency which really hurt the farmers?
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