Road to Revolution
Policy where Britain gave its colonies more freedom to govern themselves.
What is salutary neglect?
Document that gave reasons for America's separation from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Civilian soldiers.
Minutemen
What is one?
Strong supporter of a strong national government and wrote the majority of the Federalist Papers.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
Responsible for the Boston Tea Party.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
Wrote the majority of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Last major battle of the war.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
Person who led a rebellion with a farmer militia in Massachusetts due to high taxes.
Who is Daniel Shay?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: Father of the U.S. Constitution.
Who is James Madison?
Acts that placed taxes on imported materials like glass, lead, paint, paper and tea.
What are the Townshend Acts?
Document that was crucial in changing public opinion to support independence.
What is Thomas Paine's Common Sense?
Person who led troops in Virginia and pushed France to join the war.
Who is Marquis de Lafayette?
The only branch of government Americans had under the Articles of Confederation.
What is the legislative branch?
Compromise that resolved how enslaved people would be counted towards the population.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
How the British responded to the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
Last attempt by colonist to negotiate with the King George III .
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
The agreement that ended the American Revolutionary War.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: (True or False) There was a national court system under the Articles of Confederation
What is false?
Essays written to convince delegates to ratify the Constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers?
War by Native American tribes led by Chief Pontiac against British rule after the French war and Indian war
What is Pontiac's Rebellion?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: English philosopher whose idea heavily influenced the ideas within the Declaration of Independence.
Battle that convinced the French to join the Americans in the war against the British.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
Where delegates met to fix the Articles of Confederation.
What is the Annapolis Convention?
Compromise that resolved the issue of representation in the legislative branch.
What is the Great Compromise?