Watch your Act
Who's Who
That's Settled
Pros and Cons-titution
Gen Z Teaches History
100
This placed a tax on most paper goods in the colonies in an effort to cover the cost of protecting the western frontier.
Stamp Act
100
This man is responsible for writing the Bill of Rights, and has a university in Virginia names after him that is going to the college football playoffs this year.
Who is James Madison?
100
This small group of English separatists landed at Plymouth and survived by living inside of houses left abandoned by the Indians who had themselves been killed in a smallpox epidemic.
Who are the pilgrims?
100
The Constitutional Convention as originally called to deal with this problematic document, and to iron out the kinks it was causing with international trade.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
100
This group was responsible for spilling the tea at a big party in Boston
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
200
A tax placed on a favorite beverage made from toasted, dried out Asian leaves and hot water.
Tea Act
200
Ambassador to France, wrote the Declaration of Independence, founder of the University of Virginia.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
Jamestown, established in 1607, was conveniently located on what important Eastern seaboard waterway?
What is the Chesapeake Bay?
Bonus: What colony, now state, was it in?
200
Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison spilled a lot of ink defending this aspect of constitutional government which addresses the relationship between State and National government.
What are the Federalist Papers?
200
"We are never ever ever getting back together."
This infamous breakup letter from the Continental Congress to King George puts even the most savage Taylor Swift lyrics to shame.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
300
I can't stand it! How dare you punish us for destroying your property with these acts (some of which may have been mentioned already)?
What are the intolerable acts?
300
The first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and famous for a sermon he never actually wrote down but somehow got quoted. . .a lot. . .much later.
Who is John Winthrop?
300
In 1492, Columbus landed on this island, occupied by the Taino people, of whom he sent back a few to Spain as tokens. He never actually set foot on the land now known as the United States.
What is Hispanola? (Now Haiti and the Dominican Republic)
300
As established in Article one, the United States has a bicameral legislature, which means it has these two parts.
What is the house and the senate? BONUS: how long are the terms for each?
300
This general had a habit of eating and leaving no crumbs on the battlefield. . .especially when there was literally no food for his soldiers, like at Valley Forge, so he just up and crossed the river to ambush the Brits.
Who is George Washington?
400
Not an act, but the word the describes the British approach to governing the colonies until the French and Indian War kinda forced them to get more involved.
What is salutary neglect?
400
These two lovebirds sponsored a certain famous Italian to explore and claim most of Mesoamerica for their newly-united kingdom in Europe (from which they also expelled most Muslims, jews, and of course, witches).
Who were Ferdinand and Isabella?
400
This legislation established the "Northwest Territories"--what we would now call the upper Midwest--as states where slavery was not allowed, unless you were returning an escapee to their Southern owners.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
400
Judicial Review is the principal that says that this branch of government is responsible for making sure that legislation that is passed into law is actually consistent with the rest of the Constitution.
What is the Judicial Branch or the Supreme Court?
400
This guy is a snack in his bifocals and white wig. It's giving "renaissance man."
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
500
This act is addressed directly in the 3rd amendment to the constitution, which bizarrely restricts the military from sleeping in my guest room.
What is the quartering act?
500
Apparently named after a cash crop in the south, this preacher is famous for stoking the flames (literally) of the Salem Witch Trials.
Who is Cotton Mather?
500
The British, who were supposed to leave well enough alone, tried to get this tiny state to join their commonwealth that included Canada, instead of ratifying the new Constitution.
What is Vermont?
500
This is a foundational principle of the consitution that refers to the power of the people, not an aristocracy or monarchy, to have a say in the laws and how they are enforced.
What is popular sovereignty?
500
This farmers' rebellion didn't quite slay, but it did bring attention to some major weaknesses with the Articles, and it rhymes.
What is Shays' Rebellion?