French and Indian War
The French and Indian War mainly involved which two European powers?
Who are Great Britain and France?
The Boston Tea party lead to these new laws that punished the colonists.
What were the Intolerable Acts?
A letter to be sent to the King as a last attempt to prevent formal war from being declared.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
The first official Constitution of the United States that gave very little power to the central government.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
The French and the British fought for control of what area?
What is the Ohio River Valley?
Colonists argued for no taxation without representation because of this act.
What was the Stamp Act?
A letter from the colonists to Great Britain, stating their grievances and declaring their natural rights.
What was the Declaration of Independence?
Why did the Articles of Confederation fail?
What is a weak central government, and it had no ability to tax the colonies?
What do we call the plan that Benjamin Franklin created which would have united the colonies?
What is the Albany Plan of Union?
Meeting when they discussed issues of the Intolerable Acts and passed the Suffolk Resolves.
What is the 1st Continental Congress?
The first battle in the Revolutionary War, where the shot was heard 'round the world.
What was Lexington and Concord?
An act that established a federal court and individual courts.
What was the Judiciary Act?
The Treaty of Paris 1763 did what?
Double: Where was the first battle fought in the French and Indian War?
Formally ended the war, France ceded all of its territories to Great Britain
Double: What is Fort Necessity?
An agreement that didn't allow Americans to settle West of the Appalachian Mountains.
What was the Proclamation of 1763?
What did the Prohibitory Act do?
What is declared the colonies in open rebellion and set a naval blockade on all American ships?
Which of the following is true of the authors of the Articles of Confederation?
1. They were afraid to give the national government too much power.
2. They did not trust representative assemblies.
3. They ignored the rights of state governments.
4. They gave Native Americans the right to vote.
What is "1. They were afraid to give the national government too much power"?
Pontiac's War or Pontiac's Rebellion was a war for what?
What was an uprising of Native American tribes against British colonial expansion in the Great Lakes region after the French and Indian War.
A rebellion against the government that showcased the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
What was Shays Rebellion?
What did the Treaty of Paris 1783 do?
What is formally end the American Revolution and had Great Britain cede all territories in the Ohio River Valley?
Meetings where states got together to rewrite the U.S.'s first constitution.
What is the Constitutional Convention?