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Name the man known as the "Father of the Constitution"?
James Madison.
Delegates were called to Philadelphia in 1787 to revise what document?
What was the Articles of Confederation.
Propagandist of the Sons of Liberty?
Who is Samuel Adams.
General Cornwallis became trapped at this location in 1781.
What is Yorktown?
How many delegates arrived in Philadelphia in the Summer of 1787?
55.
These men agreed to be ready to defend their property and their person with little advanced warning?
Who were the "minutemen".
Washington inoculated his troops in order to try to save them from what disease?
What is smallpox.
Benedict Arnold turned traitor and demoralized the Continental Army when he turned over the plans to what post?
What is West Point, New York.
This key force allowed the Americans to keep Cornwallis trapped in 1781.
What is the French Navy?
According to the Commerce Slave Trade compromise, what happened to the slave trade?.
Congress agreed not to act upon outlawing it for 20 years (1808).
Name the British commander who was forced to surrender at Saratoga?
Who is John Burgoyne.
George Washington while at Valley Forge was keeping an eye on the British stationed in what city?
What is Philadelphia.
What is the significance of the battle of Princeton to Washington?
It was his second victory of the Revolution.
Identify one of the terms of the Treaty of Paris in 1783 that brought the American Revolution to and end?
What is England recognized American independence, agreed to remove its troops from American territory and set the territorial borders of America, north to Canada, south to Florida, and west to the Mississippi River.
The Great Compromise dealt with what issue?
What is how the colonists would be represented and taxed.
Most successful Continental commander of the Southern campaign?
Who was Nathaniel Greene.
Name the French ambassador for Americans who secured the alliance with the French in 1778?
Who is Benjamin Franklin.
What was "Victory or Death".
The United States received land that extended to these areas in the North, South, and West as a result of the treaty that ended the war.
What is land North to Canada, South to Florida, and West to the Mississippi?
Shays's Rebellion the major motivation for a convention in 1787. What problem did the Rebellion highlight with the Articles of Confederation?
The Confederation did not have the power to raise an army.
British Commander in Chief who arrived at Yorktown after its surrender.
Who was Henry Clinton.
What was the nickname of Francis Marion? The character loosely portrayed by Mel Gibson in the movie, The Patriot.
What is the "Swamp Fox".
The British launched what was suppose to be a three prong attack on this state in 1777?
What is New York.
According to the Articles of Confederation the national government had the power to do what?
To make war and peace, coin and borrow money, appoint officers within an army, establish a postal system, and negotiate with the Native Tribes.
The Constitution sent to the states in late 1787 was comprised of what parts?
What is the Preamble and 7 Articles.