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French and Indian War
American Revolution
Articles of Confederation
The Constitution
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

Period of Britain not enforcing laws on the colonist

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 agreement created a two-house Congress with representation based on population in the House and equal representation for each state in the Senate.

What was the Great Compromise?

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?
300

British law prohibited colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.

What is the Proclamation Line of 1763? 

300

These laws punished the colonists of Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party by closing Boston Harbor and limiting self-government.

What are the Intolerable Acts?

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?
400
The French and Indian War is also known as this.
What is the Seven Years War?
400

Fighting at these two towns are often thought of as the beginning of the American Revolution.

What is Lexington and Concord?

400

Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress had only one of these, unlike today’s Congress, which has two.

What is a unicameral legislature?

400

This was promised to the Antifederalists in order to get the Constitution ratified that focused on individual freedoms.

What are the Bill of Rights, the first 10 amendments to the Constitution.

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?