The Treaty of Paris 1783
Besides the United States and Great Britain, these three European countries were also involved in the American Revolution.
What are Spain, France, and the Netherlands?
This document was weak and problematic. It held the new nation together from 1777 until George Washington took power.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
This founding father, born in Virginia, was the president of the Continental Congress and the First President of the United States.
Who was George Washington?
Some say that the American Revolutionary War was not that revolutionary because this group of people maintained power before and after the war.
Who were land-owning white men?
New Jersey
What is Trenton?
After the revolution, the borders of the US expanded from the original thirteen colonies to this great river that divides the United States.
What is the Mississippi River?
This was the only active governmental body under the Articles of Confederation.
What is congress or the legislative branch?
This tall Virginian is known as the author of the Declaration of Independence. He died on July 4, 1826, exactly fifty years after the independence was declared and on the same day as former rival turned lifetime friend John Adams.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
This concept of the revolution still continues to be revolutionary. Dr. King used it several times in his "I Have a Dream" speech.
What is "all men are created equal"?
Massachusetts
What is Boston?
A win for Great Britain in the Treaty of Paris was the right to use this famous American River.
What is the Mississippi River?
George Washington was immediately asked to go to war with this European nation that helped out the US during the American Revolution.
What is France?
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
What is the status quo?
Maryland
What is Annapolis?
A win for the United States in the treaty for American fishermen to fish off the coast of this nation to the north of the United States.
What is Canada?
Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress could not raise taxes, regulate trade, or do this.
What is print money?
This ten-dollar founding father was the first Secretary of the Treasury. He has a hit Broadway musical about his life, and he was famously killed in a duel here in New Jersey.
Who was Alexander Hamilton?
This term means a sudden upheaval of the establishment.
What is a revolution?
What is Richmond
Name two of the four founding fathers we discussed who helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris of 1783.
Who are Thomas Jefferson, John Jay, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams?
Because of the weakness of the Articles of Confederation, the United States eventually ratified this document in 1787.
What is the US Constitution?
This founding father is from New York. He was the first chief justice of the US Supreme Court and helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris of 1783.
Who was John Jay?
These three groups saw no advancement after the American Revolution.
Who were enslaved Africans, women, and Native Americans?
New Hamsphire
What is Concord?