French and Indian War
Another name for the French and Indian War
What is the Seven Years' War?
This act required a tax on all printed items, from college diplomas, court documents, land titles, and contracts to newspapers, almanacs, and playing cards.
What is the Stamp Act?
The name given to the first ten amendments to the Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights?
This man was the first Secretary of the Treasury and devised a financial program that helped to put the United States on secure financial footing as well as strengthened the ties between states and the central government.
Who was Alexander Hamilton?
In this year the White Lion ship sold the first "20 and some" enslaved Africans in British North America
What is 1619?
This young British military leader helped to spark the French and Indian War when he attacked a French fort
Who is George Washington?
The British act required colonial authorities to provide food, drink, quarters, fuel, and transportation to British forces stationed in their towns or villages
What is the Quartering Act?
One major weakness of the Articles of Confederation
What is...
Possible answers: No federal ability to tax, no ability to pay national debts, no separate executive or judicial branches?
The author of Common Sense, which contributed to inciting anti-British sentiment among the American colonists
Who is Thomas Paine?
This plan established under the Articles of Confederation established the process for admitting new states to the union
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
This British proclamation prohibited American colonists from settling on lands acquired from the French following the French and Indian War
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
What is salutary neglect?
The believed that too much power in the hands of the national government was dangerous and most power should stay in the hands of the states and the people
What are the Anti-Federalists?
The only federalist president in American history
Who was John Adams?
A 1794 uprising of farmers and distillers in western Pennsylvania in protest of a whiskey tax enacted by the federal government
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
This territory was claimed by both the French and the British and conflict here ultimately led to the French and Indian War.
What is the Ohio Valley?
This British proclamation offered freedom to enslaved people who would leave patriotic owners and join the British army
What is the Dunmore Proclamation?
The two plans that contributed to the Great Compromise (name and describe each)
What is the Virginia and New Jersey Plans?
Virginia Plan - representation should be based on population
New Jersey Plan - representation should be the same for every state regardless of size
This letter warned Americans against getting involved in foreign nations' affairs AND warned about the dangers of political parties
What is Washington's Farewell Address?
A violent insurrection in the Massachusetts countryside during 1786 and 1787 that was brought about by a monetary debt crisis at the end of the American Revolutionary War
What is Shay's Rebellion?
This plan proposed to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government to help the British counter the French.
What is the Albany Plan of Union?
This mixed African and Indigenous man is understood to be the first person killed in the Boston Massacre
Who is Crispus Attucks?
This territory was claimed by both the French and the British and conflict here started by George Washington ultimately led to the French and Indian War.
What is the Ohio Valley?
These acts empowered the president to deport "dangerous" foreigners
This type of very dark, fertile anthropogenic soil found in the Amazon Basin is a product of indigenous land management systems and is highly fertile and self-sustaining
What is terra preta?