Revolution?
Your favorite Founding Father and why.
Various responses.
Paul Revere engraved a picture of this famous event. Propaganda?
What is the Boston Massacre?
Advantages for each side.
Various responses.
Issues with the Articles of Confederation.
What is it lacked a strong Central Government?
- unanimous decision to pass amendments, no real power at the Federal level.
Three causes of the War of 1812.
What were 1) Britain violating our rights to free trade on the high seas. 2) Impressment 3) British arming and encouraging the Native Americans to attack American settlers on the frontier 4) War Hawks in Congress want land in Canada
Name of the American Milita member that was always on alert. Ready....
What were "minutemen"?
Intolerable Acts.
What is the harbor in Boston is shut down and Quartering act is established?
First major battle of the war.
What was Bunker Hill?
Shays Rebellion and the Whiskey Rebellion illustrated this.
What is the country needed a stronger Central Government?
Francis Scott Key.
Who is the person who wrote the Star-Spangled Banner?
Made Tea cheaper. Gave a monopoly to the British East India Company.
What was the Tea Act?
Committees of Correspondence was formed as a reaction to __________________.
What was the Intolerable Acts?
Americans ambush the Hessians. Christmas time. Huge morale boost for the cause!
What was the Battle of Trenton?
May 25, 1787 delegates met in Philadelphia to “revise” the Articles of Confederation.
What was the Constitutional Convention?
The reason why the British burned down Washington DC.
What is- in relatliation for the Americans burning down the Canadian capital at York? (Present day Toronto)
Colonists destroy British property in response to the Tea Act.
What was the Boston Tea Party?
Committees of Correspondence were important.
What brought the various colonies together?
(method for spreading word through the colonies)
Turning Point in the war. Battle in the Empire State.
What was the Battle of Saratoga?
The differences between the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan.
What is- Virginia called for congressional representation based on population VS the New Jersey Plan called for representation to be equally distributed?
Fort McHenry protected this city.
What is Baltimore?
British response to the little party the Patriots have in Boston Harbor.
What were the Intolerable Acts (also known as Coercive Acts)?
First shots of the Revolutionary War.
What is Lexington and Concord?
The British General who surrenders at the final battle of the war.
Who was General Cornwallis?
Explain the make up of Congress today.
What is two houses? Senate is based on equal representation vs the House of Reps is based on your State's population?
Treaty ending the War of 1812.
What is the Treaty of Ghent?