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Father of the Constitution
Who is James Madison?
Independence Hall is located in this city.
What is Philadelphia?
Thomas Jefferson authored this document in 1776.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Paul Revere left Boston at night to warn the patriots before this battle.
What is Lexington and Concord?
A number of citizens, whether amounting to a minority or majority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.
What is a faction?
Tyrant King of England during the American Revolution.
Who is King George III?
This city was most affected by the Intolerable Acts.
Stipulation in the Constitution that allowed a fraction of slave to count for taxation and representation?
What is the 3/5th Compromise?
Seeing the incompetence of the Articles of Confederation, Alexander Hamilton and other leaders called together 55 delegates in order to "revise the Articles" at this meeting.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
The government structure of two legislative houses.
What is bicameralism?
Wealthy Boston merchant who famously signed his name the largest in the middle of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Hancock?
George Washington crossed this river to surprise the Hessians in Trenton.
What is the Delaware River?
Issued by George Grenville, this act, specifically for molasses, greatly angered the colonists because it was a direct tax.
What is the Sugar Act?
The publication of this pamphlet proved pivotal in pushing many colonists toward independence.
What is Common Sense?
The act of a master freeing their slave.
What is manumission?
First American killed in the cause for Independence at the Boston Massacre
Who is Crispus Attucks?
The Proclamation Line of 1763 rand along what geographic feature?
What is the Appalachian Mountains?
Plea written to the King as a last ditch effort from the American Colonists to avoid war and reconcile.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
The Patriot meeting of delegates Independence Hall after the Battle of Lexington and Concord.
What is the Second Continental Congress?
The Virginia Plan is an example of this type of representation.
What is proportional?
Known as "The Fighting Quaker," this American general was George Washington's most trusted officer.
Who is Nathanael Greene?
Name for the area of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, and parts of Minnesota before they became states.
What is the Northwest Territory?
This was the most commonly used rifle during the Revolutionary War.
What is a Brown Bess Musket?
John Adams pointed to James Otis's stirring attack on these general search warrants in 1761 as the beginning of the American Revolution.
What are Writs of Assistance?
The action of signing or giving formal consent to a treaty, contract, or agreement, making it officially valid.
What is Ratification?