Act and Events
Primary Documents
Important People
Making a New Government
Random Acts of U.S. History
100
This Act was in 1765
What is the Stamp Act
100
This document declared the United States a free independent country
What is the Declaration of Independence
100
He was our first president
Who is George Washington
100
Our current governing document that was ratified in 1789
What is the Constitution
100
The name of this war was fought between Britain and America between the years of 1812-1815
What is the War of 1812
200
This Act led to some colonists dressing up as Native Americans and dumping tea in the Boston Harbor
What is the Tea Act
200
This was the first governing document of the independent United States
What is Articles of Confederation
200
Who was elected president at the Second Continental Congress
Who is John Hancock
200
This plan was created by William Paterson of New Jersey during the Constitutional Convention
What is the New Jersey Plan
200
This presidential proclamation freed all southern slaves during the Civil War
What is the emancipation proclamation
300
This Act made colonists provide food and shelter to British soldiers
What is the Quartering Act
300
This document starts with "We the people"
What is the Constitution
300
This Prussian man helped american colonists during Valley Forge
Who is Baron von Steuben
300
This group of people were in favor of ratifying the Constitution
Who are the federalists
300
This attack launched the U.S. WWII
What is Pearl Harbor
400
Paul Revere printed this event... some might call this print propaganda
What is the Boston Massacre
400
A series of these papers, written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison wrote in favor of ratifying the Constitution
What is the Federalist Papers
400
He was the main writer of our Constitution
Who is Thomas Jefferson
400
This plan at the Constitutional Convention devised his own plan in which the executive was elected for life was this plan
What is the Hamilton Plan
400
Who was the first person to walk on the moon
Who is Neil Armstrong
500
As a response to the Intolerable Acts, delegates from each colony, except THIS colony met for the First Continental Congress
What is Georgia
500
This plan favored small states during the debate at the Constitutional Convention
What the New Jersey Plan
500
He gave a famous speech saying "Give me Liberty or give me death"
Who is Patrick Henry
500
This type of government does the United States currently have
What is a democracy
500
Richard Nixon was was caught in this scandal and forced to resign
What is watergate
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