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COLONIAL ERA
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
IMPORTANT PEOPLE AND DATES
U.S. CONSTITUTION
ALL CATEGORIES
100
Signed by the Pilgrims in 1620
What is the Mayflower Compact?
100
This law forced colonists to purchase an official stamp for every newspaper, pamphlet, and other legal documents.
What is the Stamp Act?
100
Wanted to purify the Church
Who are Puritans?
100
This branch of government will apply the law to certain situations
What is the judicial branch?
100
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happines
What are natural rights?
200
One reason colonists came to the New World from England
What is to avoid religious persecution?
200
Tested George Washington's leadership ability due to the harsh weather conditions at the fort
What is Valley Forge?
200
These adventurers were in search of gold and wealth
Who are European Settlers?
200
Electing representatives to Congress
What is popular sovereignty?
200
A method for admitting the Northwest Territory after the Revolution
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
300
Basis of self-government in the colony of Connecticut
What is the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
300
One of these laws shut down the Boston Harbor preventing the colony from making an income
What are the Intolerable Acts?
300
Constitutional Convention
What is 1787?
300
Called for counting three-fifths of the slave population for representation and taxation
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
300
During his term in office, he established precedents like a Cabinet.
Who is George Washington?
400
Guaranteed that Englishmen had certain rights
What is the English Bill of Rights?
400
Battle of Yorktown
What is the last battle of the Revolution?
400
The Bill of Rights are ratified and added to the U.S. Constitution
What is 1791?
400
A living document for over 200 years
What is the Constitution?
400
Negotiated peaceful land purchases with the Native Americans
Who is William Penn?
500
This colonial region includes Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia
What is the Southern Colonial Region?
500
In the 'Revolution' movie, one of the delegates stood and said, 'I am not Virginia, I am.......'
What is American?
500
First Lady of the American Revolution
Who is Mercy Otis Warren?
500
The Commander in Chief falls under which branch of government
What is the executive branch?
500
Persuaded the colonists to sell cash crops to the Mother Country and buy expensive imports in return
What is the mercantilists?