Vocabulary 1
What was the uprising against oppressive debt collection and tax policies in Massachusetts in 1786 and 1787?
What is Shays’ Rebellion?
This battle took place on June 17, 1775 around Breed’s Hill during the siege of Boston early in the American Revolution.
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill?
Who is the president chosen by, according to the U.S. Constitution?
Who is the electoral college?
He is known for shouting this famous quote "The British are coming!"
Who is Paul Revere?
What was the first American political party formed by Alexander Hamilton called?
What are Federalists?
What was it called when British troops shot into a hostile crowd of colonists in Boston, wounding eleven and killing five?
What is the Boston Massacre?
What was the battle where the infamous "shot heard 'round the world" occurred?
What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord?
What document had a major weakness because it created a too-powerful chief executive?
What was the Articles of Confederation?
He wrote the pamphlet titled "Common Sense".
Who is Thomas Paine?
What were the people President Adams appointed at midnight prior to President Thomas Jefferson’s inauguration called?
Who were The Midnight Judges?
What act required paper products produced in the colonies to be on stamped paper?
What is the Stamp Act?
What was the last major battle of the Revolutionary War and the location of British General Charles Cornwallis’ surrender?
What was the Battle of Yorktown?
What treaty officially ended the War of 1812?
What is the Treaty of Ghent?
What Native American women accompanied Lewis and Clark on their expedition?
Who is Sacajwea?
What is President James Monroe’s principle that any intervention by other countries in the politics of the Americas is a potentially hostile act against the U.S.?
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
What is the American Patriots’ name for the series of punitive acts passed by Britain after the Boston Tea Party? (meant to punish the colonists for their defiance)
What is the Intolerable Acts?
Who won the battle of Saratoga?
Who is the British?
What was the reason the Bill of Rights were added to the U.S. Constitution?
What was appeasing the Anti Federalists concern over the apparent lack of protection of individual rights in the Constitution?
Which president gave the first "farewell address" before leaving office?
Who is George Washington?
This treaty is known as the Transcontinental treaty that was a treaty between Spain and the United States in 1819 that gave Florida to the U.S.
What is the Adams-Onis Treaty?
What is the Articles of Confederation?
What was the agreement among 13 founding states that established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution?
Where did the Continental Army launch a surprise attack on the Hessian garrison after crossing the Delaware River in December of 1776?
Where is the Battle of Trenton?
What was the difference between the Virginia and New Jersey plans?
What is the plan based on having a congress with each state receiving delegates based on their respective populations versus the plan with equal representation for all states?
This General is known as "one of the biggest traitors in American history".
Who is General Benedict Arnold?
This act implied that if you were heard talking ill about the United States you could either be thrown in jail or deported back to England?
What is the Alien and Sedition Act?