The number of English colonies established in North America.
What is 13?
100
This document was sent to the king of England to officially announce colonial seperation.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
100
This was the first government was the first set up by the newly independent American colonies.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
100
This compromise to have "three-fifths of all other persons" to be counted towards population and taxes.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
100
This person was the first elected President under the Constitution.
Who is George Washington?
200
The concept that government is restricted and not all powerful.
What is Limited Government?
200
The concept that people are the source of the government's power.
What is popular sovereignty?
200
This Revolutionary War officer led a rebellion in Massachusetts to prevent debt collectors from confiscating the property of people in debt.
Who is Daniel Shay?
200
This plan called for a unicameral congress with equal representation as well as a "federal executive" and a "federal judiciary".
What is the New Jersey Plan?
200
This person was the first elected Vice president under the Constitution.
Who is John Adams?
300
A document signed by the king that granted the right to colonize.
What is a charter?
300
The joining of groups for a common cause. Also called a "league of friendship".
What is a confederation?
300
This many states were required to make laws under the articles of confederation.
What is 9?
300
This plan called for a three branched government with a bicameral legislature. The legislature was to have one house based on population and the other by funding.
What is the Virginia Plan?
300
This many states had to ratify the Constitution before it could be officially ratified.
What is nine states?
400
This charter, signed by King John, granted the right to trial by jury and due process to nobility.
What is the Magna Carta?
400
These meetings of the colonies led to colonial disjunction from England.
What were the first and second continental congresses?
400
The first government of America had this many branches.
What is one?
400
This compromise called for a bicameral legislature where one house was given equal representation and the other to have representation based on population.
What is the Conneticut Compromise or the Great Compromise?
400
These two states had to ratify the Constitution before it was ratified.
What are Virginia and New York?
500
Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Delaware were this kind of colony.
What is a proprietary colony?
500
This person was chosen as the president of the continental congresses.
Who is John Hancock?
500
The first meeting to ammend the Articles of Confederation was held here.
What is Annapolis, Maryland?
500
This compromise forbade congress from acting on the slave trade for twenty years.
What is the Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise?
500
Patrick Henry, Richard Henry Lee, John Hancock, and Samuel Adams were a part of this party during the creation and ratification of the Constitution.