Pre-Revolution (1754 to 1775)
This plan, proposed by the British government after the French and Indian War, aimed to prevent colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
The first shots of the American Revolution were at Lexington and Concord, cities in this colony.
What is Massachusetts Bay Colony?
This rebellion highlighted the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation and led to calls for a stronger federal government.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
This term describes the 18th-century intellectual movement that emphasized reason and science, including the American Revolution.
What is the Enlightenment?
This is currently an NFL team with two or less wins.
Who are (ex. Miami, New England, Cleveland, Jacksonville, Tennessee, Las Vegas, NY Giants, Carolina, New Orleans)?
This was the purpose of the Committees of Correspondence, established by Samuel Adams and others in the early 1770s.
What is to coordinate boycotts and resistance among the colonists?
The French ultimately agreed to aid the Americans after the American victory at this battle.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This treaty with Spain opened the Mississippi River to American navigation and secured the right to deposit goods in New Orleans.
What is Pinckney's Treaty?
This economic theory held that colonies existed primarily to benefit the mother country.
What is mercantilism?
This is the name of the puppeteer who made Pinocchio.
Who is Geppetto?
This was one policy set forth by the Intolerable Acts.
What is (ex. disbanded MA assembly, closed harbor, martial law, enforced Tea Act, etc.)
These were two provisions of the Articles of Confederation that made it difficult to create a united government.
This was how Secretary of State Alexander Hamilton resolved the state debt crisis following the war.
What is have the Bank of the United States assume the state debts at face value?
This term describes a political system where power is divided between a central government and individual states.
What is federalism?
These are two members of the crew on MTV's Jackass.
Who are (ex. Steve-O, Johnny Knoxville, Chris Pontius, Dave England, Preston Lacey, etc.)
The Tea Act granted which group a monopoly on the tea trade in the colonies?
What is the British East India Company?
This is what the term “republican motherhood” meant in the context of post-Revolutionary America.
What is women raised children to be virtuous citizens / be a voice for American ideals?
These political statements asserted that states had the right to nullify federal laws they deemed unconstitutional.
What are the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions?
These were laws implemented to force the colonists to trade only with the British, which the Americans ignored.
What are the Navigation Acts?
These are the names of four shades of red.
What are (ex. scarlet, crimson, burgundy, maroon, vermilion, ruby, cinnabar, etc.)
This 1754 proposal by Benjamin Franklin aimed to unify the colonies for mutual defense but was ultimately rejected by colonial governments.
What is the Albany Plan of Union / Albany Congress?
This French philosopher’s ideas about the separation of powers heavily influenced American political thought during the Revolution.
Who is Montesquieu?
This was one provision of Jay's Treaty.
What is (ex. repayment of impressed merchants and sailors, no alliance with France, fewer trade restrictions, etc.)
This 1795 treaty between the United States and Native American tribes ceded land in the Northwest Territory to the U.S. government.
What is Treaty of Grenville?
These are two countries that begin and end with the same letter.
What are (ex. Albania, Algeria, Angola, Andorra, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Czech Republic, Central African Republic, etc.)