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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
This plan called for equal representation of all states in a unicameral legislation.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
200
This kerfuffle was in response to Hamilton's excise tax on alcohol.
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

First met in May 1775, passed important measures such as the Olive Branch Petition, also appointed George Washington as General of the new Continental Army

What is the Second Continental Congress?

300

This was a weakness of the Articles of Confederation which caused the creation of different systems of money throughout different states

No power to create national currency

300
This plan called for the "supremacy of national authority," and based representation in the lower house of a bicameral legislature on population.
What is the Virginia plan?
300
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?
400
The French and Indian War is also known as this.
What is the Seven Years War?
400
Kerfuffles at these two towns are often thought of as the beginning of the American Revolution.
What is Lexington and Concord?
400

Organized unconquered territory for settlement. One of the few accomplishments of Articles of Confederation govt. Prohibited slavery in those territories and set up plans for education there.

What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?

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
This man was responsible for getting the Alien and Sedition Acts passed and was the only Federalist president.
Who is John Adams?
500
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?
500
American victory at this battle led to a military alliance with France.
What is the battle of Saratoga?
500
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?
500
These were a series of essays written in New York advocating for the ratification of the Constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers?
500

This proclamation saw two states in Early America reject the Sedition Act passed during Adams' presidency. They claimed if a law was unconstitutional, a state did not have to follow it.

What are the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions (1798)