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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

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 outbreak of violence was in response to Hamilton's excise tax on alcohol.

What is the Whiskey Rebellion?

300

This plan proposed that a single government be formed in America, with all the colonies joining together, to help the British counter French Expansion.

What is the Albany Plan of Union?

300

Series of acts created to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party and other tax-evading measures (tarring and feathering, blame for the Boston Massacre, etc.) NEED BOTH NAMES 

What are the Intolerable Acts/ Coercive 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 State representation based on population of each state

What is the Virginia plan?

300

Two key issues that prompted a diplomatic breakdown between the Early American Republic and the British Empire involved the British occupation of these and the British doing what to U.S. sailors (need correct term) 

What is the occupation of border forts and the impressment of U.S. sailors 

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

Outbreak of violence at these two towns is often thought of as the beginning of the American Revolution.

What is Lexington and Concord?

400

Number of states that were needed to amend the articles under the Articles of Confederation 

All/Unanimous 

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 seen as highly controversial

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 by James Madison and Alexander Hamilton advocating for the ratification of the Constitution.

What are the Federalist Papers?

500

An unofficial war between American and French ships between 1798 and 1801, and the reason the war was being fought. 

What is the Quasi War and Impressment