Founding Fathers
The first president.
Who is George Washington?
What is Britain?
Amount that other persons (including slaves) were represented.
What is 3/5?
Poor farmers revolted in Massachusetts, and though the rebellion was able to be contained, the weakness of the Articles of Confederation was shown.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
One of the first taxes that taxed playing cards, documents, letters, and many other things that required paper.
What is the Stamp Act?
Diplomat to France, inventor, publisher, and oldest founding father.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
The primary founder of the Democratic Republican party.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The amendment that prevents the government from quartering troops in any house.
What is the Third Amendment?
A petition to the King after the war started that said that Americans were still loyal to the king and wanted to be subjects.
What was the Olive Branch Petition?
What is Lexington and Concord?
Established the national Bank and a strong Federalist.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
The party that passed and primarily benefited from the Sedition Acts.
What is the Federalist Party?
Main weakness of the Articles of Confederation and what the founders intended to fix with the constitution.
What is central power?
Hamilton's interpretation of the Constitution, set precedent of stronger central government.
What is a loose interpretation?
The War in America that set the stage for the revolution.
What was the French and Indian war?
Who is James Madison?
The Democratic Republicans opposed the establishment of this until promised the state capitol would be in Virginia.
What is the National Bank?
Papers published by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay to support passing the new constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers?
Trial that happened in the colonies, later set precedent of freedom to publish.
Agreements made to not buy British goods, often enforced with Tar and Feather.
What were the non-importation agreements?
Federalist and diplomat to France and Britain, first chief justice of the US.
Who is John Jay?
Political party that most early revolutionaries would identify as, advocated in Britain for Republicanism.
What are the radical Whigs?
The Great Compromise between the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan had the House of Representatives and the Senate each represented through these methods, respectively.
What is representation by population and representation by state?
A diplomatic snub by French middlemen to American diplomats that increased anti-French sentiment.
What was the XYZ affair?
First established by Sam Adams, these provided contact in and between the colonies, spreading anti-British messages.
What were comittees of correspondence?