American statesman, he was a philospher, scientist, inventor, writer, publisher, first U.S. postmaster, and member of the committee to draft the Constitution.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
100
colonists who sided with Britain in the American Revolution.
What is a loyalist?
100
American colonists who fought for independence from Great Britain during the Revolutionary War.
What is a patriot?
100
an agreement worked out at the Constitutional Convention establishing that a state's population would determine representation in the lower house of the legislature, while each state would have equal representation in the upper house of the legislature.
What is the Great Compromise?
100
a shift of political power from the British monarchy to Parliament.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
200
American revolutionary who led the agitation that led to the Boston Tea Party; he signed the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Samuel Adams?
200
a meeting of colonial delegates in Philadelphia to decide how to respond to the closing of the Boston Harbor, increased taxes, and abuses of authority by the British government.
What is First Continental Congress?
200
people who supported ratification of the Constitution
What is a federalists?
200
an official approval
What is ratification?
200
people who opposed ratification of the Constitution
What is an antifederalist?
300
Revolutionary War hero and Patriot leader, he served as a representative to the Continental Congresses, commanded the Continental Army, and was unanimously elected to two terms as president of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
300
a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that criticized monarchies and convinced many American colonists of the need to break away from Britain.
What is "Common Sense"?
300
a Revolutionary War battle in Boston that demonstrated that the colonists could fight well against the British army.
What is Battle of Bunker Hill?
300
a Revolutionary War battle in New Jersey in which Patriot forces captured more than 900 Hessian troops.
What is Battle of Trenton?
300
the last major battle of the Revolutionary War; site of British general Charles Cornwallis's surrender to the Patriots in Virginia.
What is Battle of Yorktown?
400
American statesman, and member of two Continental Congresses, chairman of the committee to draft the Declaration of Independence, the Declaration's main author and one of its signers, and the third president of the United States.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
400
an uprising of Massachusetts's farmers, led by Daniel Shays, to protest high taxes, heavy debt, and farm foreclosures
What is Shay's Rebellion?
400
a document written by the Pilgrims establishing themselves as a political society and setting guidelines for self-government
What is the Mayflower Compact?
400
a law passed by Parliament allowing the British East India Company to sell its low-cost tea directly to the colonies, undermining colonial tea merchants; lead to the Boston Tea Party
What is the Tea Act?
400
a law passed by Parliament that raised tax money by requiring colonists to pay for an official stamp whenever they bought paper items such as newspapers, licenses, and legal documents.
What is the Stamp Act of 1765?
500
American statesman and member of the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, he was an author of the Federalist Papers, which supported the ratification of the Constitution.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
500
a Revolutionary War battle in New York that resulted in a major defeat of British troops; marked the Patriots' greatest victory up to that point in the war.
What is Battle of Saratoga?
500
a series of essays that defended and explained the constitution and tried to reassure Americans that the states would not be overpowered by the proposed national government.
What is Federalist Papers?
500
a charter of liberties agreed to by King John of England, it made the king obey the same laws as citizens.
What is the Magna Carta?
500
laws passed by Parliament to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party and to tighten government control of the colonies.