Events
The first war of the American Revolution
What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord?
Served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797?
Who is George Washington?
The first ten amendments of the U.S. Constitution that guarantee different civil liberties.
What is the Bill of Rights
Unpopular tax on an array of paper goods.
What is the Stamp Act?
The last battle in the American Revolution was fought in __________
What is Yorktown, Virginia?
War between the British and the French in North America and resulted in the expulsion of the French from the North American mainland.
What is the Seven Years War?
Served as counsel for the defense in the trial of eight british soldiers accused of murder during a riot in boston on March 5, 1770.
Who is John adams?
Ordered colonists to stop migrating west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
British transferred bulk of “redcoats” to major seaports & authorized use of private property to house/shelter these troops
What is the Quartering Act?
“The first shot heard around the world” was a reference to a battle that was fought in _____
What is Lexington and Concord?
Major Turning point in the American Revolution.
What is the battle of Lexington and Concord
British monarch during the revolution.
Who is George III?
Before the United States had the Constitution, it had the_____, a much weaker government that lasted from 1777 to 1789.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
Reduced the massive amount of tea held by the financially troubled British East India Company in its London warehouses and to help the struggling company survive
What is the Tea Act?
In March 1770, British soldiers stationed in ______ opened fire on a crowd, killing five townspeople and infuriating locals
What is Boston?
An armed uprising in Massachusetts in response to a debt crisis
What is Shays’ Rebellion
Founding Father who served as the first United States secretary of the treasury, and also was the founder and chief architect of the American financial system.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
Written by the Founding Fathers who were opposed to or concerned with the merits of the United States Constitution of 1787
What is the Anti- Federalist Papers
The first tax levied on the colonists by the crown and was lowered substantially in response to widespread protests
What is the Sugar Act?
Site of the first and second Continental Congresses in 1774 and 1775
What is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?
Bloody campaign waged by Ottawa chief Pontiac to drive the British out of Ohio Country and brutally crushed by British troops, who resorted to distributing blankets infected with smallpox as a means to put down the rebellion.
What is Pontiac’s Rebellion?
Common Sense is a 47-page pamphlet written by ________ in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies
Who is Thomas Paine?
A collection of articles and essays written by 3 men that argued for the ratification of the Constitution and were published under the pseudonym Publius.
What were the Federalists Papers
Reaffirmed Parliament’s unqualified sovereignty over the North American colonies
What is the Declaratory Act?
Areas of New York, Pennsylvania, Canada and Noca Scotia were all major areas of what event
What is the French and Indian War?