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French and Indian War
American Revolution
Articles of Confederation
The Constitution
Deep Cuts
100
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?
100

He argued that it was common sense to leave the British Empire. 

Who is Thomas Paine?

100
These two branches of government did not exist under the Articles of Confederation.
What are the Judicial and Executive branches?
100

These states benefitted from the Senate

What are the small states?

100

The leader of the Federalist party who advocated for a strong central government and an economy based on trade and banking

Who is Alexander Hamilton?

200
This man led an expedition into the Ohio Valley to reassert British claims over the region.
Who is George Washington?
200

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?

200
The lack of power to do this, led to a fiscal crisis where the central government was nearly bankrupt by 1780.
What is the power to tax?
200

Two parts of the Three-Fifths Clause.

What are enslaved citizens would get 3/5 representation and importation of slaves could not be banned for 20 years and fugitive slave law?

200

The area where slavery expanded extensively during the 1790s and early 1800s.

What is the Deep South?

300
This plan proposed one general government be formed in America that includes all of the colonies to help the British counter French Expansion.
What is the Albany Plan of Union?
300
Laws that specifically targeted Boston and Masachussetts

Coercive Acts or Intolerable Acts

300

This established the principle that territories could become states as their populations grew.

What is the Northwest Ordinance?

300

This agreement allowed or a bicameral legislature with both state and popular representation in congress.

What is the Great Compromise?

300

60,000 of these colonists fought with the Redcoats during the Revolutionary War.

Who are the loyalists?
400
This granted Britain the following territories: French Canada, all French territory east of the Mississippi River, Spanish Florida and recent conquests in Africa and India.
What is the Treaty of Paris, 1763?
400

This man argued that kings and governments must respect the natural rights of men.

Who is John Locke

400
This conflict in Massachusetts was about exorbitant tax increases that caused mobs of angry farmers to close the courts to prevent foreclosure on their farms.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
400
This was promised to the Antifederalists in order to get the Constitution ratified.
What are the Bill of Rights, the first 10 amendments to the Constitution.
400

Two pieces of British legislation that were NOT direct taxes on the people

What are the Declatory Acts and Coercive Acts?

500

The effect that the French and Indian War had on American colonists.

The end of salutary neglect
500

DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!

These TWO things allowed Washington to win the revolutionary war.

What are war of attrition and French aid?

500

This type of legislature created a more complex process for passing laws. 

What is bicameral?

500
These were a series of essays written in New York advocating for the ratification of the Constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers?
500

The ideal that women would teach American political values

What is Republican Motherhood?