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Important Vocab
Post-War
100
He was chosen to lead the continental army.
Who is George Washington.
100
These were the first two battles of the American Revolution.
What are Lexington and Concord.
100

This war (BEFORE THE REVOLUTION) was very expensive, and England decided the colonists should help pay for it with taxes.

What is the French and Indian War

100

The first structure of government in the United States.

What is the Articles of Confederation

100

Agreement that allowed three out of every five slaves to be counted when calculating a state's population for representation in congress.

What is the Three Fifths Compromise

200

Group of people who supported King George III during the Revolution.

What is a loyalist.

200
This was the event when British soldiers fired into the crowd, killing innocent civilians, including Crispus Attucks.
What is the Boston Massacre
200
This was a tax on all printed goods in America
What is the Stamp Act
200

British-produced boundary that prohibited colonists from settling on lands acquired from the French following the French and Indian War. 

What is the Proclamation of 1763

200

The Alien and Sedition Acts were passed under this president.

Who is John Adams

300

He led a revolt against colonial westward expansion after the French and Indian War.

Who is Chief Pontiac

300
This was the event in which many Patriots boarded a British ship and destroyed all of the product on board.
What is the Boston Tea Party
300

The law that required colonists to allow British soldiers into their homes to eat and sleep.

What is the Quartering Act.

300
This pamphlet, written by Thomas Paine stated that Americans need to stop fooling around and fight back against England!
What is Common Sense.
300

Economic proposal by Washington's Secretary of Treasury which included a national bank, excise taxes and tariffs, & assumption of state debt.

What is Hamilton's Financial Plan

400

She asked her husband to "Remember the Ladies" and include them in the new democratic government.

Who is Abigail Adams

400

The final battle of the War in which England surrendered.

What is the Battle of Yorktown

400

The rallying cry of the Patriots, who were against British taxation.

What is "no taxation without representation"

400

A new role for women to teach civic virtues to their sons.

What is Republican Motherhood

400
The individual who won the presidential election of 1800.

Who is Thomas Jefferson

500

He was the author of most of the Federalists Papers.

Who is Alexander Hamilton

500
The turning point of the war, when the Americans start to take the lead.
What is the Battle of Saratoga
500

The name of the Patriot group most active in boycotts of British goods, intellectual protest, and violent intimidation.

Who are the Sons of Liberty

500

Law that organized new territory north of the Ohio Valley and considered the most important legislative act by the Articles of Confederation.

What is the Northwest Ordinance

500

Clause of the Constitution setting forth the implied powers of Congress; it states that Congress, in addition to its express powers, has the power to make all laws "necessary and proper" for executing its given powers (Another name for the Necessary and Proper Clause).

What is the Elastic Clause