Causes of the Revolution
This tax ultimately led to the colonists dumping 342 trunks of tea into the harbor during the Boston Tea Party.
What is the tea tax?
These were the first battles of the Revolutionary War.
What are Lexington and Concord?
The Articles of Confederation were the first set of laws that governed the US. Name one of its weaknesses.
Open answer
What is 9?
These were those who remained loyal to England during the Revolutionary War.
Who were the Loyalists?
This event on King's Street left 5 colonists dead and tensions between the British and the colonists high.
What is the Boston Massacre?
Name 1 advantage the Americans had in the war.
What are:
Patriots
Homefield
Huge Terrain
This uprising led many wealthy elites in America to call for a stronger national government.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
This group pushed for the ratification of the Constitution.
Who are the Federalists?
This was a revolutionary pamphlet that called for independence written by Thomas Paine.
What is Common Sense?
These acts, referred to by the colonists as the Intolerable Acts, greatly limited the local government in Mass.
What is the Coercive Acts?
Name 1 Advantage the British had in the Revolutionary War.
What are:
A Huge professional army
Loyalists
African and Native American forces
The initial goal of the meeting in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787 (later known as the Constitutional Convention).
What is to revise the Articles of Confederation?
This group opposed the ratification of the Constitution.
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
This was the political document that stated America was its own independent nation.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The Proclamation Line of 1763 angered the colonists by greatly limiting this.
What is western expansion and trade with Natives?
This European nation became the Americans primary ally in the war.
What is France?
Who is James Madison?
This series of 85 essays, written by Madison, Hamilton, and Jay, were meant to convince the New York state convention to ratify the Constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers?
This resolution addressed how slaves would be counted toward the population when it was time to total the number of representatives.
What is the Three Fifths Compromise?
The Stamp Act caused boycotts and protests over the taxing of these objects.
What is all legal documents and printed materials?
Name the 2 outcomes of the Treaty of Paris.
What are:
King George III is no longer sovereign in America
England ceded the Northwest territories
This resolution solved the representation issue by creating the Senate, based on equal representation, and the House of Representatives, based on population.
What is the Great Compromise?
This was the key to ratification of the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This group was working to make the national government stronger under the Articles of Confederation.
Who were the Nationalists?