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100
This war represented a continuation of a long-standing rivalry between the French and the British, as both countries worked to increase their colonial holdings in North America.
What is the Seven Years' War?
100

This pamphlet arguing in favor of American independence quickly spread Patriot fervor among the colonists.

What is Common Sense?

100

In order to get the Anti-Federalists to agree to a Constitution that strengthened the federal government, Federalists agreed to add this set of ten amendments protecting the people.

What is the Bill of Rights?

100
This document from the early days of the American Republic advocated against foreign alliances and political parties.
What is Washington's Farewell Address?
100

This organization suffered from a lack of food, money, supplies, training, and sanitation during the Revolutionary War.

What is the Continental Army?

200

The ideals of this movement, including thinkers like John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Thomas Hobbes, influenced the thinking of the American Revolutionaries about natural rights and freedoms.

What is the Englightenment?

200

This organization first took action by protesting against British taxes in ways that included property destruction and burning tax collectors in effigy.

What is the Sons of Liberty?

200

This uprising, led by a farmer who had fought in the Revolutionary War, demonstrated the weaknesses of the US government under the Articles of Confederation.

What is Shays' Rebellion?

200

This party, led by Alexander Hamilton, favored a strong central government.

What is the Federalist Party?

200
As a part of this economic strategy used against the British during the Revolution, American women produced homemade goods like tea and clothing.
What is a boycott, or non-consumption agreement?
300
Pontiac's Rebellion, an uprising of the Native Americans triggered by the increased presence of the British military in land formerly held by the French, led the British to implement this policy forbidding colonists from settling west of the Appalachian mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
300
The Virginia Plan, which was favored by large states, called for representation based on population, while the New Jersey Plan represented each state in this way.
What is equally?
300
The Continental Congress agreed that the slave trade would be protected until 1808 and also that slaves would be counted in this way for the purpose of determining population.
What is as 3/5 of free people?
300

The US Congress has this structure in order to fairly represent both large and small states.

What is bicameral, or two-chambered?

300
This invention, which made cotton growing in the deep South much more profitable, also led to a greatly increased Southern dependence on slavery.
What is the cotton gin?
400

The British took this risky action during their conflict with the French in the 1750s and 1760s, ultimately leading to conflict with the colonies down the line.

What is dramatically increasing military spending/going into debt?

400
This philosophy called on women to become educated so they could educate their sons.
What is Republican Motherhood?
400

A successful revolution against white colonial powers in this island nation made American slaveholders fear a slave uprising.

What is Haiti?

400

This gathering represented the first inter-colonial government.

What is the Stamp Act Congress?

400

This significant protest against British taxes led to the punitive Coercive Acts (also known as the Intolerable Acts).

What is the Boston Tea Party?

500

These battles were key turning points in the Revolutionary War; the first was a major victory by the colonists that persuaded the French to join them and the second was the battle in which French troops helped the colonists force the British to surrender.

What are the battles of Saratoga and Yorktown

500
The Articles of Confederation assigned this key function of government to the states, not the federal government.
What is taxation?
500
This law banned slavery in certain territories in what is now the Midwest, and provided a path to statehood for new territories.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
500
The colonists protested against taxation without representation, but the British claimed that they had this.
What is virtual representation?
500

This tax on official documents led to significant backlash from printers and lawyers in the colonies.

What is the Stamp Act?