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This young British officer disintegrated the "Long Peace" between France and Britain after attacking Fort Duquesne in 1754. Although, you might not believe it based on his legacy.
Who is George Washington?
This Native coalition lived between the French and British in present-day New York and played the colonial powers against each other successfully.
Who were the Haudenosaunee or Iroquois Confederacy?
Surrounded by their American and French adversaries, the British finally surrendered their remaining forces in 1781 at this Virginia town.
What is Yorktown?
Advocates of this plan wished to amend the Articles of Confederation by adding to the financial power of Congress but also wanted to maintain basic sovereignty of the states and equal representation in government.
What is the New Jersey Plan?
This 1803 land deal with France doubled the size of the United States and opened vast western territories to exploration and settlement.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This illegitimate son of Benjamin Franklin was removed from Ben's will after he chose to remain loyal to the Crown during the War for Independence.
Who is William Franklin?
Thomas Jefferson envisioned an "Empire of Liberty" throughout the West, comprised of these types of agrarians. They also hated "Aristokracy."
Who are yeomen farmers?
The British found this port city to be the center of the patriot's cause and their military strategy was to cut it off from the rest of the colonies.
What is Boston?
The Anti-Federalists may have conceded more to the Federalists during Constitutional debates, but they did secure this set of protections in the document.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This global conflict saw fighting on the North American continent between Britain, France, and various Native communities.
What is the Seven Years War or the French and Indian War?
This man led a "rebellion" in western Massachusetts during the Critical Period. While unsuccessful, it showcased some of the flaws of the Articles of Confederation.
Who was Daniel Shays?
This vigilante group used intimidation and violence, such as tar-and-feathering, to deter British customs officials from collecting duties.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
This region, inhabited by various Native communities, was between territories claimed by the British and French.
What is the Ohio Country?
This system of government, used by Great Britain, divided authority between the crown and parliament.
What is a Limited Monarchy or Constitutional Monarchy?
Stop me if you've heard this before. In 1791 some Americans protested taxes yet again, but this time it was the first domestic tax in the United States, intended to pay off substantial war debts.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
This skilled translator was arguably the first enslaved African brought to North America by the Spanish, nearly a century before the British started importing enslaved labor into Jamestown.
Who is Estebanico?
This group tended to have both a majority and a higher degree of cultural autonomy in places like South Carolina and Georgia. It contributed to things like speaking Gullah language and cultural cosmopolitanism.
Who are enslaved people?
In 1788, Anti-Federalist discontent developed into a riot in this town in western Pennsylvania.
What is Carlisle?
Alexander Hamilton perhaps had the most profound impact on the creation of this institution, making the United States federal government more powerful, much to the disdain of Thomas Jefferson.
What is the National Bank?
This battle proved to be a disaster for Burgoyne and the British. They quickly learned of the popularity of the Patriot cause and altered their military strategy. It also brought France into the fold.
What is Saratoga?
Who is George Whitefield?
These businesspeople bought large quantities of British-manufactured goods from producers to resell to colonial retail shops and country stores.
Who are wholesale merchants?
Planters from the Caribbean imported their practice of slavery as they established this British colony.
What is South Carolina?
This phrase means a government's ability to dictate how and when it spends its money including taxation. Something the colonists fought hard to attain in their War for Independence.
What is the Power of the Purse?
It was here that a group of women and men met to argue for women's sufferage, sparking nationwide activism in 1848--nearly sixty years after the ratification of the Constitution.
What is Seneca Falls Convention?