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Potpourri
200
This event, in which British soldiers opened fire on a group of protesting colonists, was memorialized in the etching seen here:
What was the Boston Massacre?
200
This was the first American colony to engage in outright armed rebellion against British rule
What is Massachusettes?
200
Delegates from all the states attended this gathering that was intended to amend and improve the Articles of Confederation
What was the Constitutional Convention?
200
The primary author of the Declaration of Independence who went on to serve as the third president of the United States
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
The first ten amendments to the Constitution which guarantee extensive individual liberties to Americans
What is the Bill of Rights?
400
Massachusetts colonists disguised themselves as Native Americans and sneaked aboard British ships in harbor in order to engage in this "festive" act of protest
What was the Boston Tea Party?
400
Location in Pennsylvania where General Washington's army spent a difficult winter in 1777-1778 receiving military training from a Prussian baron
What is Valley Forge?
400
Representatives from all thirteen colonies signed the Declaration of Independence at this meeting in 1776
What was the Second Continental Congress?
400
American author, inventor, and newspaper editor who served as ambassador to France during the American Revolution
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
400
Name given to France's 1803 sale to the United States of an enormous territory west of the Mississippi
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
600
Debt from this war, which lasted from 1754 to 1763, caused the British to levy new taxes against the American colonies
What was the French and Indian War?
600
City where the U.S. Constitution was drafted in 1787
What is Philadelphia?
600
These local groups were organized by Samuel Adams to inform colonists of British measures and coordinate opposition to them in the years before the American Revolution
What were the committees of correspondence?
600
Silversmith who made a midnight horseback ride in 1775 to warn Massachusetts colonists that British troops were marching to arrest Patriot leaders and confiscate weapons stores
Who was Paul Revere?
600
A starship of this name features in most t.v. shows and movies in the Star Trek franchise
What is Enterprise?
800
This 1783 agreement ended the American Revolution with the British ceding a large amount of territory to the United States
What is the Treaty of Paris?
800
Forest moon that was the site of the Battle of the Second Death Star in Return of the Jedi
What is Endor?
800
Name given to the meeting of representatives from all the colonies except Georgia to try to repair the colonists' relationship with Great Britain
What was the First Continental Congress?
800
Creator of the Virginia Plan who is sometimes known as the "Father of the Constitution"
Who was James Madison?
800
British policy of allowing the American colonies to govern themselves as long as they paid taxes and cooperated with England's economic programs
What was salutary neglect?
1000
This uprising of Native American tribes from the Great Lakes region resulted from attempts by American colonists to settle in territories west of the Appalachian Mountains
What was Pontiac's Rebellion?
1000
First capital city of the United States after ratification of the Constitution
What is New York City?
1000
Meeting of the protagonists in The Fellowship of the Ring to determine how to destroy the One Ring and defeat the dark lord Sauron
What was the Council of Elrond?
1000
Merchant, statesman, and sometime smuggler who is perhaps best known for his prominent signature on the Declaration of Independence
Who was John Hancock?
1000
Statutory interpretation that allows the federal government to use only those powers that are specifically granted by the Constitution
What is strict construction?