"Poor people that are flying from the oppression of the Landlords & Tyeths (as they term it) to severall parts of America"
Who are the Scotch-Irish?
100
The French Navy, commanded by this man, blocked British oceanic retreat during the final battle of the American Revolution.
Who is Admiral Degrasse
100
Proportion of American colonists in support of revolution by 1776.
What is one-third to two-fifths
100
Prevent periphery from trading goods with non-British territories.
What are the Navigation Acts
100
Beard found that "most of the makers of the Constitution had some direct economic interest in" this.
What is a strong central government
200
The profession of Joseph Galloway, a Pennsylvania loyalist examined by Parliament in 1779.
What is a Lawyer
200
France wants the American military to do what for their rebel soldiers?
What is to pay
200
Westward expansion was prevented by this.
What is the Proclamation Line of 1763
200
The Coercive Acts, Tea Acts, and Quebec Acts became known as this.
What are the Intolerable Acts.
200
Uprising that prompted Madison or Hamilton to defend the need of a "well-constructed senate" as "sometimes necessary as a defense of the people against their own temporary errors and delusions (Federalist Paper No. 63)."
What is Shay's Rebellion
300
Community in Northampton County, PA whose resident's experiences "demonstrate that the revolution politicized a range of interlocking identities in the multicultural Delaware Valley."
What is Easton, PA
300
Diplomat Americans send to Paris in order to persuade French government to support the American revolutionary cause.
Who is Benjamin Franklin
300
Seize in which The World Turned Upside Down was played at Lord Cornwallis' order.
What is Yorktowne
300
Tax placed on all luxury goods.
What are the Townsend Duties
300
First piece of literature to make a blunt call for independence.
What is Common Sense
400
1763 event that "served to further intensify the image of Indians as 'untrustworthy savages.'"
What is Pontiac's Rebellion
400
Penned by Benjamin Franklin, "Join or Die" was the colonial mantra during this war.
What is the French and Indian War
400
Group John Adams defends in court following the Boston Massacre.
Who are the British soldiers
400
The Tea Act lowered the tax on tea, a beverage consumed primarily by citizens in this socioeconomic status.
What is the Upper Class
400
Tax, intended to raise revenue for bond redemption, that indirectly benefited the wealthy while directly hurting rural western farmers.
What is the whisky tax
500
Government body that should have right to collect taxes according to the Minority Members of the House of Representatives.
What is the state government
500
Military adviser who helped create a professional American army.
Who is Lafayette
500
Calls for an American Parliament.
What is the Galloway/Dickinson Compromise
500
Economic system based on total empirical control of trade and commerce.
What is Mercantilism
500
Lead the Green Mountain Rebels against "Attorneys and other gentlemen."