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Major Events
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This event occurred on March 5, 1770 between British soldiers and Boston citizens. It started with snowballs and ended with death
What is The Boston Massacre
100
George Washington's VP and also the second president of the United States
Who is John Adams
100
This act was a direct tax imposed by the British government that required colonists to pay a tax on various forms of paper (ex. Documents, playing cards)
What is The Stamp Act
100
" light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security. Such has been the patient Sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the Necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The History of the present King of Great Britain, is a History of repeated Injuries and Usurpations, all having in direct Object the Establishment of an absolute Tyranny over the States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid World."
What is The Declaration of Independence
100
These 10 Amendments were adopted in order to have Anti-Federalists ratify the Constitution
What is The Bill of Rights
200
George Washington is the first president of the United States. What year is he elected president?
What is 1789
200
Name at least four founding fathers
What is one of the following: John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington.
200
This Act was created to maintain the British army and repay war debts. It imposed duties on foreign wines, coffees, textiles, and indigo imported into the colonies
What is The Sugar Act
200
"The Stile of this confederacy shall be “The United States of America."
What is The Articles of Confederation
200
This was a revolt by farmers in western Pennsylvania who opposed a federal tax on alcohol
What is The Whiskey Rebellion
300
Two things that George Washington warned for future governing of the US (This appeared in his farewell address)
What is 1.) Forming political parties and 2.) Forming permanent foreign alliances
300
Secretary of the treasury. His vision for the economic foundation of the US included: 1.) federal assumption of state debts, 2.) creation of a Bank of the United States, and 3.) support for the new nation’s emerging industries.
What is Alexander Hamilton
300
This act outraged established US merchants and gave a monopoly to the East India Company
What is The Tea Act
300
This document described “preserved to the said Indians” the lands west of the Appalachian Mountains and ordered white settlers “there forthwith to remove themselves from such Settlements,” forbade white settlement, and restricted commerce with the American Indians to traders licensed by the British government, requiring settlers to “take out a License for carrying on such Trade from the Governor or Commander in Chief of any of Our Colonies respectively.”
What is Proclamation of 1763
300
Clause adopted in regards to slaves and their contribution to population
What is the Three-Fifths Clause
400
Location of "the shot heard 'round the world
What is Lexington and Concord
400
Leader of Great Britain during this time. Declared that "Great Britain would not give independence to the colonies"
What is King George III
400
Another name for the Coercive Acts that started in March 1774
What is the Intolerable Acts
400
“Every thing that is right or natural pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, ‘TIS TIME TO PART. . . .” (What and who)
What is Common Sense by Thomas Paine
400
Massachusetts farmers, faced with high taxes, eviction, and imprisonment for debt, attacked the Springfield arsenal
What is Shays' Rebellion
500
The number of states that had to ratify the Constitution in order for it to go into effect
What is nine
500
Writes a poem on slavery and tyranny. She declares that her love of freedom comes from being a slave, comparing the colonies’ relationship with England to a slave’s relationship with a slave holder.
What is Phillis Wheatley
500
Chronologically order the following acts: Stamp Act, Tea Act, Sugar Act, Intolerable Acts
What is Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Tea Act, Intolerable Acts
500
A series of essays written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison supporting the Constitution
What is the Federalist Papers
500
Location of the surrender of the American Revolution ( October 19, 1781)
What is Yorktown (New York)