American Revolution
He was the King of Britain during the American Revolution
Who was King George III?
This battle. was considered the turning point in the American Revolution?
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
Our three branches of government are
This document was our first Constitution which ended up needing to be changed.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
This vocabulary word means cases involving a crime, the breaking of a law. If you lose you can go to prison.
What is a criminal court case?
This General was named the leader of the continental army
Who is George Washington?
This battle was also known as the shot heard around the world.
What are The Battles of Lexington and Concord?
The average annual salary for a President is
What is $400,000?
This compromise allowed larger states and smaller states to shape what the congress will look like in the Articles of Confederation.
What is The Great Compromise?
This vocabulary word means a colonist in the Thirteen Colonies who rejected British rule
Who is a patriot?
This was the last try from the colonists to resolve their grievances prior to the American Revolution
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
This group was not invited to be a part of the negotiations during the Peace Treaty signing.
What are the Native American Tribes?
This amendment put into legislation that a President could only serve a maximum of 2 terms.
What is the 22nd amendment?
As a part of the Articles of Confederation this government branch did not have the power to tax its citizens or create a standing army
What is the Congress?
This vocabulary word refers to the introduction paragraph of the Constitution.
What is the preamble?
This act taxed all paper goods, playing cards, and legal documents
What is the Stamp Act?
This Battle was where George Washington crossed the Delaware and captured Prussian mercenaries on Christmas day.
What is the Battle of Trenton
The House of Representatives is maxed out at having this many representatives
What is 435?
After the Revolutionary war Britain occupied the forts in the Great Lakes region of present day Canada and began trading guns and munitions with this group of people
Who are the Native Americans?
This vocabulary word means to give official, legal, or formal approval to an agreement, contract, treaty, or decision, making it valid and binding
What is to ratify?
This was a way that the Patriots would antagonize and harrass the loyalist within the colonies
What is Tar and Feathering?
The Colonists gained all area west up to which geographic feature as a result of the Paris Peace Treaty
What is the Mississippi River?
This person serves as the tie breaker vote for all bills passed by the senate
Who is the Vice President (JD Vance)?
This law created a single territory out of the lands north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
This vocabulary term means an agricultural product grown to sell for commercial profit in a market rather than for a farmer's own family consumption or livestock
What is a cash crop?