13 Colonies
This colony, founded by James Oglethorpe, served as a place for debtors and a buffer against Spanish Florida.
What is Georgia?
This British policy allowed the colonies to govern themselves with little interference for many years before the French and Indian War.
What is Salutary Neglect?
The “shot heard ‘round the world” was fired at this first battle of the Revolution before the signing of the Declaration of Indepence.
What is Lexington and Concord?
This document replaced the Articles of Confederation and created a stronger federal government.
What is the Constitution?
George Washington set this precedent by refusing to run for president in 1797.
What is a two-term limit?
This was the main reason both Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams were banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
What is disagreeing with Puritan leaders about religion and government?
After the French and Indian War, Britain issued this proclamation to prevent colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This 1781 battle in Virginia marked the last major conflict of the Revolutionary War.
What is Yorktown?
These first ten amendments guarantee freedoms such as speech, religion, and the press; added to the constitution to satisfy Anti-federalists and to protect civil liberties.
What is the Bill of Rights?
His plan helped stabilize the U.S. economy by creating a national bank and resulted in the creation of the Federalists party.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
The New England colonies depended on this type of economy.
What are furtrading, fishing, timber and shipbuilding.
This series of laws punished Boston for the Tea Party by closing the harbor and limiting town meetings.
What are the Intolerable Acts or Coercive Acts
This 1777 victory convinced France to support the American colonies with troops and ships.
What is Saratoga?
The Constitution (Seperation of powers) divides the government into three branches: Legislative, Executive, and this branch.
What is the judical branch?
Washington issued this policy to avoid becoming involved in European wars.
What is proclaimation of neutrality?
This system allowed colonies to trade goods with England under strict rules, part of Britain’s "mother country" focus.
What is the mercantile system or mercantilism?
This war left Britain in debt, leading them to tax the colonies more heavily.
What is the French and Indian War?
George Washington crossed the Delaware River and won a surprise victory here on December 26, 1776.
What is Trenton?
This compromise during the Constitutional Convention created a two-house legislature and satified both large and small states.
What is the Great Compromise or Connecticut Compromise?
Farmers rebelled against a tax on whiskey during Washington’s presidency, testing federal authority.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
Maryland was founded by Lord Baltimore as a colony for people of this religion.
What is Catholicism?
What are the Townshend Acts?Colonists’ anger over this act, passed in 1767, led to boycotts of British goods.
What are the Townshend Acts?
This Southern battle in 1780 was a turning point for Patriot militias (Overmountain Men) against Loyalist forces.
What is Kings Mountain?
The system that prevents any branch of government from becoming too powerful is called this.
What is checks and balances?
Washington signed this treaty in 1795 to settle conflicts with Britain and avoid war.
What is the Jay Treaty?