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French and Indian War
American Revolution
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100

The French and Indian War is also known as this.

What is the Seven Years War?

100

The end of this "attitude" by Britain 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

This allowed British soldiers to take residence in the homes of colonists

What is the Quartering Act?

300
This established the principle that territories could become states as their populations grew.
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1784.
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
After the Seven Years War, Britain noted in this document that colonists couldn't go past the Appalachian Mountains

What is the Proclamation of 1763? 

400
Kerfuffles at these two towns are often thought of as the beginning of the American Revolution.
What is Lexington and Concord?
400

The Ordiance dividing land for the Northwest Territory stated it must be divided into "not less than ____ nor more than ____ States"

What is three and five

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 group met in June 1776 and debated independence and approved a draft declaration

What is the 2nd Continental Congress

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 is considered a half step for women's rights - as women were tasked with raising good sons

What is Republican Motherhood