Revolutionary Acts
This 1765 act required colonists to pay for a seal on paper goods.
What is the Stamp Act?
The first shots of the Revolutionary War were fired here in April 1775.
What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
This 1787 agreement created a bicameral legislature combining the Virginia and New Jersey Plans.
What is the Great Compromise?
This 1791–present set of amendments protects individual rights.
What is the Bill of Rights?
He led a Black regiment after promising freedom to enslaved people in a 1775 proclamation.
Who is Lord Dunmore?
These 1767 acts taxed goods like glass, paint, and tea.
What are the Townshend Acts?
This December 1776 surprise attack helped revive American morale.
What is the Battle of Trenton?
These laws passed in the 1780s delayed or adjusted debt payments to protect farmers.
What are Stay Laws?
This 1791 tax on distilled spirits led to a major rebellion.
What is the Whiskey Tax?
This group opposed the Constitution’s ratification without a Bill of Rights.
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
In response to British taxation, this 1768–1783 movement encouraged colonial boycotts.
What is the Non-Importation Movement?
This October 1781 battle ended major fighting in the Revolutionary War.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
This 1786–87 uprising by farmers in Massachusetts exposed weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shays’ Rebellion?
This 1795 treaty helped avoid war with Britain but angered many Americans.
What is Jay’s Treaty?
This 1800 planned slave rebellion in Virginia was uncovered before it began.
What is Gabriel’s Rebellion?
This act passed in 1773 aimed to bail out the British East India Company.
What is the Tea Act?
This 1775 battle, often misnamed, took place mostly on Breed’s Hill.
What is the Battle of Bunker Hill (or Charlestown)?
This 1787 ordinance provided a process for territories to become states.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
This 1791 financial institution was part of Hamilton’s economic plan.
What is the Bank of the United States?
These secretive groups formed in the 1760s to resist British policies.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
Name the 1774 acts that closed Boston Harbor and revoked Massachusetts’ charter.
What are the Intolerable Acts (or Coercive Acts)?
Name the treaty signed in 1783 that officially ended the Revolutionary War.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This 1783 event involved officers upset over unpaid military pensions.
What is the Newburgh Conspiracy?
This 1804 amendment changed the Electoral College after the election of 1800.
What is the 12th Amendment?
These 1798 acts targeted immigrants and critics of the federal government.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?