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This is the name of the treaty that ended the French and Indian War.
What is the Treaty of Paris of 1763?
The first shots of the war, called "the shot heard 'round the world," occurred here.
What are Lexington and Concord?
He was chosen as the General of the Continental Army and the President of the Constitutional Convention.
George Washington
The first US Constitution, written in 1781, created a weak federal government with no executive or judicial branch.
This group led by Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry feared that the Constitution created a federal government that had too much power and did not want to ratify it.
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
This group, founded by Sam Adams, led protests and boycotts against British taxes in the 1760s.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
This is the camp where Washington's army camped for the winter of 1777-1781, facing hunger, disease, weather but managed to turn themselves into a well-trained army.
What is Valley Forge?
He led the Committee of Five and is known as the main author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This was one of the two major strengths of the Articles of Confederation and provided a way to add states to the US.
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
This group of Amendments to the Constitution was the compromise between Federalists and Anti-Federalists and gave many rights to the people and the states.
What are the Bill of Rights?
This law passed by the British in 1763 told Colonists they could not cross the Appalachian Mountains in order to avoid more costly wars with the Native Americans living there.
What is the Proclamation Line of 1763?
He spent the time during the Revolutionary War in France as a diplomat, convincing France to send money and their navy to help the colonists defeat Great Britain.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
Also known as the "Father of the Constitution," he proposed the Virginia Plan at the Constitutional Convention.
This rebellion which lasted for months in 1787 showed just how weak the US government was under the Articles of Confederation and led to a meeting in Philadelphia later that year.
What is Shays Rebellion?
This compromise between northern and southern (slave) states, settled the debate over whether or not slaves should count for representation or taxation.
What is the 3/5 Compromise?
This is the main cause for Parliament and the King to raise taxes on the colonists after the French and Indian War.
What is debt caused by the French and Indian War?
This battle is often called the "turning point" of the American Revolution because it convinced the French and other European countries to help the colonists.
This man and Baron Von Steuben of Prussia, provided military leadership and training to the Continental Army during the War.
The Treaty of Paris of 1783
What was the original purpose of the Constitutional Convention meeting in 1787 in Philadelphia?
What is "revise the Articles of Confederation?"
This pamphlet, written by Thomas Paine, argued for independence and was very popular and influential throughout the colonies.
This battle that ended the war, saw Lord Cornwallis' troops surrounded on a peninsula between Washington's American troops and the French Navy.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
What are the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?
The big states and the small states