name that act
This Act called for a tax of sixpence per gallon on non-British sugar and molasses imported into the North American colonies.
What is the Sugar Act?
The commander and chief of the continental army and later became the first U.S. President.
Who is George Washington
This event showed that the colonist can compete with the British army
What was the Battle at Bunker Hill
colonist seize and burn a British customs ship
what was the Gaspee Incident
someone who believes in the type of political system in which states or territories share control with a central government.
what is a Federalist?
This act imposed new taxes on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used.
What is the stamp act.
preposed the Great Compromise
Who is Roger Sherman
Colonists harass British soldiers causing them to open fire on the crowd, killing 5
What was the Boston Massacre
Colonists raid the Boston Harbor and throw tea overboard
what was the Boston Tea Party
This outlined the process for states to count slaves as part of the population in order to determine representation and taxation for the federal government.
What was the 3/5ths Compromise?
This act outlines the locations and conditions in which British soldiers are to find room and board in the American colonies.
What is the Quartering act.
Drafted the Declaration of Independence
Who is George Washington
this was the first major colonial victory
What was the battles of Trenton and Princeton
Daniel shay leads a group of farmers in revolt over high taxes
What was Shay's Rebellion
An individual who was against separating from the British Empire
what are Loyalists?
also known as the intolerable acts, this was a series of British measures passed in 1774 and designed to punish the Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party.
what is the coercive acts
First Secretary of Treasury
Who is Alexander Hamilton
this clash of arms was the result of tensions that had built over a long period and changed the conflict from politics and social unrest to open warfare.
What was Lexington and Concord
The first American rebellion against colonial rule, Nathaniel Bacon led an army of 1,000 Virginia colonists against the governor William Berkeley.
what was bacon's rebellion?
German soldiers who most notably served as auxiliaries to the British Army during the American Revolutionary War.
what are Hessians?
this prohibited the export of arms, ammunition, and implements of war from the United States to foreign nations at war and requiring arms manufacturers in the United States to apply for an export license.
what is the Neutrality Act
Who is John Adams
It wasn’t so much any single battle but the failure of the British campaign from the north that made this the war’s most significant military turning point.
A 1794 uprising of farmers and distillers in western Pennsylvania in protest of a whiskey tax enacted by the federal government.
What was the Whiskey Rebllion
A doctrine expounded by the advocates of extreme states' rights. It held that states have the right to declare null and void any federal law that they deem unconstitutional.
what was Nullification?