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Revolution
100
I set up Rhode Island to be a model of religious toleration after I was kicked out of the Massachusetts Bay colony.
Who is Roger Williams?
100
This law was passed by Congress when President Jefferson got fed up with the British and French interfering with American shipping. It stopped all American trade and crippled the economy.
What is the Embargo Act?
100
The term for the time when the British didn't enforce the Navigation Acts and were not strictly collecting all the taxes.
What is salutary neglect?
100
This was the largest Indian uprising against the British colonists in New England. Many towns were completely wiped out in this 1676 war that was named for its leader.
What is King Philip's War?
100
This treaty ended the Revolution.
What is the Treaty of Paris 1783.
200
I wrote "Common Sense" to try to convince the colonists to support the Revolution and independence
Who is Thomas Paine?
200
This British law was passed at the end of the French & Indian War (Seven Years' War) and said that the colonists were prohibited from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
200
The term for the idea that colonies exist to enrich the mother country. Colonies were to provide raw materials and be a market for finished goods.
What is mercantilism?
200
Farmers in western Pennsylvania rebel against the excise taxes that were part of Alexander Hamilton's financial plan. The rebellion was died out when President Washington sent an army to show he was serious about collecting the taxes.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
200
This document was written primarily to convince France and Spain that the Patriots were serious and also to recruit neutral colonists to the Patriot cause.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
300
I am the first Democratic-Republican president. Although I believed in a strict construction of the Constitution, I bought Louisiana, increased the size of the Navy to fight the Barbary pirates, and got the controversial Embargo Act passed.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
300
This law created the first tax on goods made and used in the colonies (rather than on exports or imports). It taxed newspapers, documents, playing cards and dice. This internal tax led to widespread colonial protests.
What is the Stamp Act?
300
The term for the judges appointed at the end of John Adams' presidency. Adams rushed to fill the judicial branch with Federalists because they had lost the executive branch.
What is the midnight judges?
300
This uprising in Massachusetts was led by farmers upset that they were losing their farms because they could not pay their taxes. Many were soldiers who had not been paid for fighting in the Revolution. This showed the failures of the Articles of Confederation and led to the writing of the Constitution.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
300
This was a last ditch effort by the Second Continental Congress to avoid war. They sent a letter to King George III that is sometimes called by this term.
What is the Olive Branch petition?
400
My sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" sparked the Great Awakening.
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
400
This case established judicial review and made the Supreme Court an equal branch of government.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
400
This is the term used by the British to claim that the citizens of the colonies had representation in Parliament. The colonists didn't agree and wanted actual representation.
What is virtual representation?
400
Virginia backcountry settlers attack and burn Jamestown because the government was not protecting them on the frontier.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
400
These battles occurred when the British set out to arrest Patriot leaders, Sam Adams & John Hancock, and seize a stockpile of weapons and ammunition.
What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
500
My trial established freedom of the press in colonial America.
Who is John Peter Zenger?
500
These essays urged states to nullify (refuse to obey or enforce) the Alien and Sedition Acts. This was the first time the doctrine of nullification was mentioned. They were published anonymously, but later revealed to be authored by Jefferson and Madison.
What are the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions?
500
The term for the religious doctrine that Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin espoused. It said that there was a God (creator), but he set up the universe to run according to natural laws and was not involved in the daily lives of humans.
What is Deism?
500
This uprising of Revolutionary War veterans was stopped before it started because of an appeal by George Washington. He urged the unpaid soldiers to be patient after they threatened to overthrow the government because they feared they would not be paid.
What is the Newburgh Conspiracy?
500
This battle is considered the turning point in the Revolution because the Patriot victory led to the treaty of alliance with the French and ended the British strategy to cut New England off from the other colonies.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?