Revolution
The Declaration of Independence blamed him for the abuses against the colonies.
Who was King George III?
His failed rebellion energized the elites to meet in Phiadelphia and create a powerful centralized government.
Who was Daniel Shays?
The Whiskey Rebellion was over this issue.
What was the implementation of a federal excise tax on whiskey?
The first engagement of the Revolutionary War happened in this colony.
What was Massachusetts?
The "father" of the US Constitution.
Who was James Madison?
The long period of weak enforcement of British mercantile law.
What was salutary neglect?
Enlightened English philosopher whose beliefs are expressed in the Declaration of Independence.
Who was John Locke?
The counting of a states slave population for assigning the numbers of representatives it would have in congress was solved with this agreement.
3/5ths Compromise
Hamilton's proposal to create this led to a spirited debate over the interpretation of the Constitution and the development of political parties.
What was the Bank of the United States (BUS)?
The Mason/Dixon line is located on the border of these two states.
Radical Boston patriot who helped organize the Boston Tea Party.
Who was Samuel Adams?
The sharing of power between state and national governments.
The Stamp Act was designed to raise revenue from the colonies following this war.
What was the French and Indian War?
George Washington issued the Proclamation of Neutrality in 1793 to avoid U.S. involvement in what European conflict.
War between Britain and France
The difficult winter spent at this Pennsylvania camp was the crucible of the American professional army.
What was Valley Forge?
His argument against monarchy convinced many the revolution against imperial rule was common sense.
Who was Thomas Paine?
Parliament repealed these taxes following the Boston Massacre.
What were the Townshend Acts?
The stunning success of this Dec. 26, 1776 attack on this town saved the Continental Army and ensured the Revolution would continue into the next year.
What was the Battle of Trenton?
What was Massachusetts? (Thank you Governor John Hancock)
It was the first of Hamilton's controversial reports which advocated federal assumption of state debts and funding the entire debt in full with interest to create private sector wealth.
What was the Report on Public Credit?
The peace agreement between Britain and the United States established this as the Western boundary of the United States.
Influential foreigner whose friendship with George Washington would help him survive an effort in the Continental Congress to replace him with Horatio Gates.
Who was Marquis de Lafayette?
Jefferson and Madison were students of this 17th century intellectual movement that stressed natural rights for all.
What was the Enlightenment?
The Intolerable Acts targeted this misbehaving colony.
What was Massachusetts?
Match the following powers to each branch of government: makes the laws, enforces the laws, interprets the laws.
Legislative - makes the laws
Executive - enforces the laws
Judicial - interprets the laws
Jay's Treaty, Pickney's Treaty, Treaty of Greenville
Jay's Treaty - Britain
Pickney's Treaty - Spain
Treaty of Greenville - Miami Confederacy
Much of the future state of Ohio was given to the United States as a result of this treaty.
What was the Treaty of Greenville?
First Secretary of War who helped Washington gain an early success in driving the British out of Boston in early 1776.
Who was Henry Knox?
This series of 85 essays advocated for the support of the Constitution's strong centralized government.
What were the Federalist Papers?
This battle became the turning point fo the Revolution because of the French decision to recognize and ally with the colonies.
What was the Battle of Saratoga, 1777?
Put in the correct order from left to right as they appear on the Political Spectrum:
reactionary, liberal, conservative, radical, centrist (moderate)
radical, liberal, centrist (moderate), conservative, reactionary
With each of the following state if it is Republican or Federalist.
strict constructionism, Alexander Hamilton, BUS, An agrarian republic, Jay Treaty
strict constructionism - Republican
Alexander Hamilton - Federalist
BUS - Federalist
An agrarian republic - Republican
Jay Treaty - Federalist
As a consequence of a political compromise between Hamilton and Jefferson over the assumption of state debts our nation's permanent capital would be surrounded by these two southern states.
What is Virginia and Maryland?
Member of Parliament's House of Lords who voted against the Coercive Acts then led an enormous British flotilla to crush the rebellion through intimidation and forgiveness.
Who was Admiral Richard Howe?
The king refused to read this and then ordered a naval blockade of the colonial coast.
What was the Olive Branch Petition?