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100

What was the name of the plan thatBenjamin Franklin adopted to establish an intercolonial government, a mechanism for enlisting soldiers, and a means of collecting taxes from different colonies for their shared defense?

What is - The Albany Plan of Union

100

He wrote this famous pamphlet in 1776 called Common Sense

What is - Thomas Paine

100

What was a direct result of Pontiac's Rebellion that prohibited colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains?

What is -Proclomation of 1763

100

System where the ppower of each branch would be limited by the powers of the others

What is Checks and Balances?
100

What was the name of the first two political parties?

What is Federalists and Democratic-Republicans?

200

This war resulted in Great Britain's unchallenged spremacy amoung Europeans in North America

What is -The 7 Years War

200

Invented the cotton gin which changed the way cotton was produced?

What is Eli Whitney?

200

What was the name of the proclomation that was a result of Washington not believing the US was strong enough to engage in European war?

What is the Proclomation of Neutrality?

200

Used today, this system gave a state a number of votes equal to the state's representatives and senators?

What is Electoral College System?

200

Unintended consequence of Washington leaving office after 2 years?

What is the two-year tradition?

300

This inspiring battle pursuaded France to join the war against Britain

What is -Battle of Saratoga

300

This person narrowly beat out Thomas Jefferson to become the second US president?

What isJohn Adams?

300

Police show up to Isaiah's house without a warrant and demand he opens the door as it has been stated that he is a wide-known drug dealer. What amendment protects his right to bot have the police come in?

What is - The 4th Amendment

300

What was the name of the papers written by James Madison, Alexander Hamilto, and John Jay that defended the Constitution?

What is The Federalist Papers?

300

What were the three main points in Hamilton's Fincancial Program?

What is pay off national debt, impose high tarifs, creation of national bank?

400

A diplomatic disagreement between French and American officials that ended in the Quasi-Conflict, a brief, undeclared war.

What is the xyz affair?

400

In 1768, James Otis and who wrote the Massachusettes Circular letter that urged colonists to petition the parliment to repeal the Townshend Acts?

What is -Samuel Adams

400

These legislation increased the residence requirement for citizenship from 5 to 14 years, gave the president the authority to remove "aliens," and authorized their arrest, detention, and deportation during wartime.

What is the Alien and Sedition acts?

400

What two plans resulted in the Conneticut Comprimise?

What is the Virginia and New Jersey Plans?

400

Who did Washington appoint as the first secretary of war?

What is Henry Knox?

500

A 1795 treaty between the United States and indigenous nations of the Northwest Territory

What is the Treaty of Greenville?

500

Led a revolution with farmers in an uprising agaisnt high state taxes, imprisonment for debt, and lack of paper money

What is Caniel Shays? 

500

This law placed the federal government in control of all legal actions with Native Americans?

What is the Indian Intercourse Act?

500

Established orderly procedures for dividing and selling federal lands at moderate prices

Public Land Act

500

Name when state constitutions and laws abolished old constitutions that hadd originated in medieval Europe.

What is Abolition of Aristocratic Titles?