Fort what now?
Due to deep-seated trade relationships and a less invasive colonial footprint, the vast majority of Native American tribes chose to side with this European nation.
What is France?
This 1765 act sparked widespread protests by placing a tax on newspapers, legal documents, and playing cards.
What is the Stamp Act?
These three "certain unalienable rights" are listed in the Declaration of Independence.
What is Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness?
He was appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army in 1775 and later became the first President of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
Article I of the Constitution designates that every single U.S. state shall send exactly this number of senators to Congress.
What is two?
This highly contested river valley was the primary geographic region that Great Britain and France fought over, sparking the war.
What is the Ohio River Valley?
In December 1773, the Sons of Liberty disguised themselves as Mohawk Indians and dumped 342 chests of British East India Company cargo into the harbor during this event.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
He was the primary/main author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Fired on April 19, 1775, the "shot heard 'round the world" marked the opening engagement of the revolution at these two Massachusetts towns.
What is Lexington and Concord?
Passed during the Reconstruction era, the 13th Amendment officially abolished this institution throughout the United States.
What is slavery?
Built by the French at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, this pivotal fort angered British governor of Virginia, Robert Dinwiddie.
What is Fort Duquesne?
These acts required colonial assemblies to provide housing, food, and supplies to British soldiers stationed in America.
What are the Quartering Acts?
The city where the Second Continental Congress met and signed the document.
What is Philadelphia?
Signed in 1783, this international agreement formally ended the Revolutionary War and secured official British recognition of American independence.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This specific branch of the federal government has the unique constitutional power to alter the total number of Supreme Court justices.
Breaking ranks with many neighboring tribes, this powerful Native American Confederacy primarily sided with the British to check French expansion.
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
In January 1776, this recent English immigrant published Common Sense, a wildly popular pamphlet arguing for immediate independence.
Who is Thomas Paine?
The longest section of the Declaration of Independence is a list of formal complaints against this British monarch.
Who is King George the III?
This 1781 land battle in Virginia effectively ended major combat after trapping British General Cornwallis between American forces and the French fleet.
What is the battle of Yorktown?
The freedom of religion in the First Amendment is divided into these two distinct, major clauses.
What are the Establishment Clause and Free Exercise Clause?
This Ottawa war leader launched a major pan-tribal rebellion against British rule immediately following the war's conclusion in 1763.
Who was Pontiac?
Parliament passed these punitive measures in 1774—known in Britain as the Coercive Acts—to punish Massachusetts after the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
By signing the Declaration of Independence, the delegates committed this capital crime against the Crown.
What is treason?
Fought in 1777, this series of engagements became the turning point of the war by convincing France to openly ally with the United States.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
To successfully amend the Constitution, a proposed amendment must be ratified by this specific fraction of the states.
What is 3/4?