Colonial Responses
This policy allowed the American colonies to govern themselves with minimal interference from England.
What is salutary neglect?
Where were the first shots fired in the Revolutionary War?
What is Lexington and Concord?
Who was appointed commander in chief of the Continental Army?
Who is George Washington?
What is considered the supreme law of the land?
What is the Constitution?
What uprising in 1786-1787, led by a former soldier and farmer, protested against economic injustices and the lack of government response to the financial struggles of rural citizens?
What is Shay's Rebellion?
What group of colonists opposed British policies and supported independence?
What group of colonists opposed British policies and supported independence?
What turning point convinced the French to join the war against Britain?
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
Who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
What was the first attempt to unite the former colonies under a central government?
What are the Articles of Confederation?
Which slavery-related compromise allowed states to count a portion of their enslaved population for representation?
What is the three-fifths clause?
What phrase summarizes the American colonists' grievance against British taxation policies, highlighting their lack of representation in Parliament?
What is taxation without representation?
What encampment served as the site for the Continental Army's winter quarters from 1777 to 1778, where troops faced harsh conditions but emerged as a more disciplined fighting force?
What is Valley Forge?
Who was the leader of the uprising in 1786 that protested economic injustices and highlighted the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation by leading a rebellion in Massachusetts?
Who is Daniel Shay?
Which document formally declared American independence from Britain?
What is the Declaration of Independence?
In which city did the Constitutional Convention take place in 1787, where delegates gathered to draft the United States Constitution?
What is Philadelphia?
What series of punitive laws enacted by the British Parliament in 1774 aimed at punishing the Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party is often cited as a catalyst for the American Revolution?
What are the Intolerable Acts?
What was the last major battle of the American Revolutionary War where British General Cornwallis surrendered to American and French forces in 1781?
What is Yorktown?
Who is often referred to as the "Father of the Constitution" for his pivotal role in its drafting and his contributions to the Federalist Papers?
Who is James Madison?
What phrase, found at the beginning of the U.S. Constitution, emphasizes the idea that the government's power derives from the consent of the governed?
What is "We the People"?
What agreement resolved the dispute over representation in Congress between large and small states?
What is the Connecticut Compromise?
Which organization coordinated resistance against British policies and promoted the American Revolution?
What is the Continental Congress?
What treaty formally ended the Revolutionary War in 1783?
What is the Treaty of Paris?
Who wrote "Common Sense," advocating for independence from Britain?
Who is Thomas Paine?
What critical weakness of the Articles of Confederation contributed to the financial difficulties of the early United States by preventing Congress from raising revenue through taxation?
What is the Articles of Confederation's inability for Congress to tax?
Who was the Connecticut delegate at the Constitutional Convention who proposed the Great Compromise, which established a bicameral legislature?
Who is Roger Sherman?