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American colonist who favored the movement for independence in the 1770s
Patriot
A loosely organized society throughout the colonies whose goal was to assure colonial support for resistance for British taxation.
Sons of Liberty
General of the Continential Army
George Washington
Act of Parliament created to increase revenue and encourage the importation of molasses.
Surgar Act
A colonial supporter of the British during the American Revolution
Loyalist
The event in which 5 American colonists were killed, including Cirispus Attucks, often seen as a spark of the Revolutionary War
Boston Massacre
The patriots response to the act monopolizing the East India Company.
Boston Tea Party
A national bank established in 1791. The bank was responsible for holding large portions of federal funds, distributing loans and currency, and funding the national debt.
Bank of the United States
Who are the three authors of the Federalist Papers?
John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison
The 1783 treaty that ended the Revolutionary War, recognized American independence, and established U.S. territory between the Mississippi River in the west, Florida in the south, and Canada to the north.
Treaty of Paris
Battle that ended in the surrender of British Forces in 1781. It was a joint effort between the French and the Americans.
Battle of Yorktown
Major weakness of the Articles of Confederation
It couldn't tax the colonies
An idea that was proposed by American political leaders, which supported women's eduation so that they could in turn instruct their sons in principles of Republican government
Republican Motherhood
A rebellion by farmers due to their lack of payment after serving in the revolutionary war.
Shays' Rebellion
The compromise between northern and southern delegates at the 1787 Constitutional Convention to count enslaved persons as three-fifths of a free person in deciding the proportion of the representatives and taxation by the federal goverment. It had the long-term effect of granting slaveholding states a larger amount of voting power
Three-Fifths Compromise
A proposal at the Constitutional Convention endorsed by small states for a one-house legislature with eachs tate having an equal vote.
New Jersey Plan
A treaty between Spain and the United States ratified in 1896 that defined the boundry between U.S. and Spanish territory in the South and opened the Mississippi River and New Orleans to the U.S. shipping. It allowed the free movement of goods from the far interior to the Alantic via the Mississippi.
Pinckney Treaty
The 1785 act of the confederation congress provided for the survey, sale, and eventual division into states of the Northwest Territory and set aside land for public schools. A 1787 act then clarified the process by which settled territories could become states and banned slavery across the Northwest Territory.
Northwest Ordinances of 1785 and 1787
Two security acts passed in 1798 by the federalist controlled Congress. It allowed the presdient to imprison or deport noncitizens.
Alien and Sedition Acts
What animal is pictured on Benjamin Franklin's cartoon created to unionize the colonies during the french and indian war.
Snake
A proclamation issued by the royal governer of Virginia in 1775. It offered reedom to all enslaved Black Americans and Indentured Servants in exchange for joining the British Army.
Dunmore's Proclamation
A battle between 2000 American soldiers against 1500-2000 Indian Soldiers led by Little Turtle, lost by the American Indians
Battle of Fallen Timbers
A 1786 law passed by the Virginia Assembly that ensured the separation of church and state and largely guaranteed freedom of religion
Statute of Religious Freedom
A Frenchman that joined the Continental Army in 1777, led patriots in battle, and contributed heavily to the American victory.
Marquis de Lafayette
An investor who buys large quantities of commodities at a low price in hopes that prices will rise and produce a profit when sold.
Speculator