Colonial Period
This war officially lasted seven years?
What was the seven years war?
This was a protest against the Tea Act.
What was the Boston Tea Party?
This Battle ended the revolutionary war.
What was the Battle of Yorktown?
This was the origional constitution of the United States.
What were the Articles of Confederation?
This was a tax on paper.
What was the Stamp Act?
This treaty in this year ended the seven years war.
What was the Treaty of Paris (1763)?
Five people died
What was the Boston Massacre?
These were the first two battles of the Revolution.
What were the battles of Lexington and Concord?
This revolt was caused by taxation without representation.
What was Shays' rebellion?
This rebellion was caused by a tax of whiskey.
What was the Whiskey Rebellion?
This was a change in how people thought of religion.
What was the First Great Awakening?
These four plus one acts were passed in the wake of the Boston Tea Party.
What were the Intolerable/Coercive Acts?
This was the turning point of the war.
What was the Battle of Saratoga?
This is how many times slavery is menioned in the constitution.
(400 more points if you can explain all three instances)
Three
(3/5th clause, Banning of Transatlantic slave trade, and fugitive slave clause)
In 1763 this line proclaimed this:
What was "This side of the Appalachians for the colonists, and this side for the natives."?
This was a change in how people thought of their governments.
What was the Enlightenment?
These were called in response to the Intolerable/Coercive Acts.
What were the First and Second Continental Congresses?
This treaty in this year ended the Revolutionary War.
What was the Treaty of Paris (1783)?
Who could vote in the new Republic?
White, property owning men.
What was the big feature of the Great Compromise?
What was a bicameral legislature with a upper house appointed by the states and a lower elected house.
This was formed during the seven years war as a way to unite the colonies and keep Britian out.
What was the Albany Congress?
This phamplet was written by Thomas Paine
What was "Common Sense"?
In this battle, the commander said "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eye!"
The Battle of Bunker Hill
What does Federalist #10 say?
What is "A large diverse republic with a representative gov't is the best way to control the harmful effects of factions"?
These were two old colonial wars.
What were King Philip's and King William's war?