WAR & EMPIRE
Begun over control of the Ohio River Valley this conflict was the North American theater of the Seven Years' War.
What is the French and Indian War?
Colonists chanting "no taxation without representation" protested this law, the first direct tax on the colonies, levied on paper goods.
What is the Stamp Act?
The "shot heard round the world" was fired in April 1775.
What are Lexington and Concord?
This 1777 victory in New York convinced France to become an open ally of the United States.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
What is strict?
Benjamin Franklin proposed this plan of colonial unity, promoted with his "Join, or Die" cartoon, but the colonies rejected it.
What is the Albany Plan of Union?
This 1770 clash in the streets of Boston, spread by Patriot propaganda, left five colonists dead, including Crispus Attucks.
What is the Boston Massacre?
Meeting in 1775, this body created the Continental Army and named George Washington its commander.
What is the Second Continental Congress?
What is The Northwest Land Ordinance?
Under the Articles, Congress could only request money from the states because it lacked this power.
What is the power to tax?
This treaty ended the French and Indian War and gave Britain Canada and all French territory east of the Mississippi River.
What is the Treaty of Paris 1763?
In December 1773, colonists disguised as Mohawks dumped 342 chests of this company's tea into Boston Harbor.
What is the British East India Company?
Thomas Paine's January 1776 pamphlet argued for independence in plain language ordinary colonists could understand.
What is Common Sense?
Poor Revolutionary War vets march on the Massachusetts court system. Failure to put this down exposed the weaknesses of the Articles.
What is Shays Rebellion?
These three men combined to write the Federalist Papers arguing for a new stronger Federal Government.
Who are Madison, Hamilton, and Jay?
Issued after Pontiac's Rebellion, this royal order banned colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
Parliament punished Boston for the Tea Party with these acts, which closed the port and curtailed Massachusetts self-government.
What are the Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts)?
The Declaration of Independence's principal author.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Trapped by American and French forces Cornwallis surrendered at this Virginia port.
What is Yorktown?
This uprising and the subsequent squashing of it exposed how powerful the new constitution was.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
Fighting the war roughly doubled this British burden, leading Parliament to look to the colonies for new revenue.
What is the national debt?
This secret network of Patriot activists, organized by Samuel Adams, led boycotts and protests against British policy.
What are the Sons of Liberty?
Sent in July 1775 as a last appeal to the king, this petition professed colonial loyalty and asked George III to intervene on their behalf.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
This treaty recognized American independence and extended the new nation's western border to the Mississippi River.
What is the Treaty of Paris of 783?
This compromise created a two-house Congress: equal representation in the Senate, population-based representation in the House.
What is the Great Compromise (Connecticut Compromise)?