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French and Indian War
American Revolution
Articles of Confederation
The Constitution
Early Years of the Republic
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
The end of this is one of the primary reasons for the Revolutionary War.
What is salutary neglect?
100
These two branches of government did not exist under the Articles of Confederation.
What are the Judicial and Executive branches?
100
This is where 55 delegates from 12 states met to revise the Articles of Confederation.
What is Philadelphia?
100
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 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
These were a series of essays written in New York advocating for the ratification of the Constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers?
200

This kerfuffle was in response to Hamilton's excise tax on alcohol and is an example of the social issues caused by his fianancial plan.

What is the Whiskey Rebellion?

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
This is the idea that colonists had representation in Parliament because there were transatlantic merchants and West Indian sugar planters as members.
What is virtual representation?
300

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 Shays' Rebellion?

300

This agreement that created a bicameral legislature with two houses: the House of Representatives, based on state population, and the Senate, with equal representation for every state.

What is the Connecticut or Great Compromise?

300

Washington abided by this policy during the French Revolution.

What is neutrality?

400

A British decree following the French and Indian War that prohibited colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains to prevent conflict with Native Americans.

What was the Proclamation of 1763?

400

These boycott strategies used by American colonists to protest British policies by refusing to buy British goods and to refuse to use or consume certain British goods

What is nonimportation and nonconsumption?

400

This established a standardized system for surveying and selling public lands in the Northwest Territory, dividing it into townships of six-mile squares to create a uniform grid for settlement and land sales

What is the Land Ordinance of 1785?

400

This agreement represents one of the ways that slavery was written into the Constitution and led to counting three out of every five enslaved people when determining a state's population for both congressional representation and direct taxation

What is the 3/5s Compromise?

400
This agreement between Britain and the U.S. ignored America's claim that "free ships make free goods," and accepted Britain's right to stop neutral ships.
What is Jay's Treaty?
500

This granted Britain the following territories: French Canada, all French territory east of the Mississippi River, and Spanish Florida, while also kicking the French out of mainland North America?

What is the Treaty of Paris, 1763?

500

This was a declaration by the royal governor of Virginia that offered freedom to enslaved people who would abandon their patriot masters and fight for the British. It was not because of their desire to end slavery, though, but rather to obtain troops faster than transporting them across the Atlantic.

What was Lord Dunmore's Proclamation?

500
This prohibited slavery and earmarked funds from land sales for the support of schools. It also set the population requirement to become a state at 60,000.
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
500

Those who did not support the ratification of the Constitution.

Who were the Anti-Federalists?

500

The British begin to employ this practice during the wars that broke out during the French Revolution on US ships and would end up being a leading cause of the War of 1812.

What is impressment?