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Category #1 Category #2 Category #3 Category #4 Category #5 Category #6Battles

Causes of the

Revolution

ImportantPeople

LawsArticles of Confedera-

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The Constitu-

tion

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America’s victory in this 1777 battle resulted in France coming to the aid

of the U.S.

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What is Saratoga?

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This was the last major battle of the American Revolution: Cornwallis surrendered to the U.S.

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What is Yorktown (1781)?

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This was the first battle of the

American Revolution.

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What is Lexington

and Concord?

Round 1

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After this bloody battle on the hills surrounding

Boston, the king officially declared the colonies in rebellion.

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What is Bunker Hill?

Round 1

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George Washington may have saved the Patriot cause when he crossed the Delaware River and defeated Hessians at

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What is Trenton?

Round 1

$100This 1765 meeting was

perhaps the most important of the

revolutionary era because 9 colonies worked together in resisting British policy.

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What is the Stamp Act Congress?

Round 1

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The “Intolerable” Acts were passed

in response to this colonial

action. Scoreboard Answer

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What is the Boston Tea

Party, 1774?Round 1

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This law marked the end of “salutary neglect.”

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What is the Proclamation

of 1763?

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The Second Continental Congress

was formed in response to this

event.

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What is the Battle of

Lexington and Concord, 1775?

Round 1

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The Boston Massacre occurred largely

because Americans had resisted this

1767 act of taxation.

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What are the Townshend Acts, 1767?

Round 1

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The “natural rights” philosophy of this

Englishman provided the foundation for the Declaration of

Independence. AnswerScoreboard

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Who is John Locke?

Round 1

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This “Common Sense” writer convinced

Congress to declare its independence.

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Who is Thomas Paine?

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This British Prime Minister sought to

impose British control over the colonies, thus

ending Salutary Neglect.

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Who is George

Grenville?Round 1

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This Massachusetts leader founded the “Sons of Liberty.”

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Who is Samuel Adams?

Round 1

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This Founding Father earlier wrote in his Letter From a Pennsylvania Farmer that

Britain did not have the right to impose either internal or

external taxes on the colonies.

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Who is John Dickinson?

Round 1

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These laws sought to enforce Britain’s

mercantilist system

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What are the Navigation

Laws?Round 1

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This 1764 act was the first

intending to directly tax the

colonies.Scoreboard Answer

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What are the Sugar Acts?

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Great Britain passed this face-saving

measure immediately after it repealed the Stamp Act in 1766.

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What is the Declaratory

Act?

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This 1787 law banned slavery north of the

Ohio River and provided rules for

attaining statehood.

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What is the Northwest

Ordinance of 1787?

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The Boston Tea Party was a

response to this British law.

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What is the Tea Act?

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The biggest weakness of the Articles of

Confederation was its inability to regulate

this.

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What is interstate

commerce?Round 1

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This 1786-87 rebellion convinced wealthy Americans that a stronger central government was

needed. Scoreboard Answer

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What is Shays’ Rebellion?

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This meeting was called by Alexander Hamilton in 1785-86 to revise the

Articles and promote economic growth.

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What is the Annapolis

Convention?

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This law provided for the organized settlement of the Old Northwest.

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What is the Land

Ordinance of 1785?

Round 1

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This plot conceived by military officers sought to

overthrow the government in 1783. George Washington

stopped it.

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What is the Newburgh

Conspiracy?

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This agreement resulted in the creation of a

bicameral legislature: the Senate and House of Representatives.

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What is the Great Compromise (Connecticut

Compromise)?

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Montesquieu provided the philosophical

foundation for this structure of government.

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What are checks and balances

(separation of powers)?Round 1

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The issue of counting slaves as

part of the Southern

population was resolved by this

agreement. Scoreboard Answer

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What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?

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In order to select a president with a small number of voters, this system was created.

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What is the Electoral College?

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Among the several authors of the

Constitution, this Virginian is considered

the most important.

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Who is James Madison?

Round 1

Category #1 Category #2 Category #3 Category #4 Category #6Ratifica-tion

Debate

Revolution and Social

Change

Treaties & Conven-

tions

President Washing-

ton

President Adams

Hamilton’s Financial

Plan

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$200Anti-Federalists’ most

common complaint about the Constitution

was that it lacked one of

these.

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What is a bill of

rights?Round 2

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This many states needed to ratify the Constitution in order for it to

take effect.Scoreboard Answer

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What is nine?

Round 2

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These anonymous newspaper articles in New York, later collected into a single volume, helped the

ratification of the Constitution.

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What are the Federalist Papers?

Round 2

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These three authors

anonymously published the

Federalist Papers.Scoreboard Answer

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Who are Madison,

Hamilton, and Jay?

Round 2

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The Constitution officially took

effect in this year.

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What is 1789?

Round 2

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This was the first national constitutional

government in the history of the United

States.

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What is the Articles of

Confederation?

Round 2

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This Massachusetts wife demanded of her famous husband that women be given more rights during the revolution—she would be bitterly disappointed.

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Who is Abigail Adams?

Round 2

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80,000 of these conservative pro-

British colonists left the U.S. as a result of

the Revolution.

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Who are the Loyalists (Tories)?

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These two aristocratic privileges of

inheritance were outlawed after the

Revolution.

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What are primogeniture

and entail?

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The Quok Walker case represented the end of this institution in

Massachusetts.

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What is slavery?

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This treaty recognized the independence of the U.S. and granted it much land east of the Mississippi River.

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What is the Treaty of

Paris, 1783?Round 2

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This treaty so divided the Hamiltonians and

Jeffersonians in the 1790s that two official political

parties emerged.

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What is the Jay Treaty?

Round 2

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This 1795 treaty effectively removed

Native Americans from much of the Ohio

territory.

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What is the Treaty of

Greenville?Round 2

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This agreement ended the Quasi-War between the U.S. and France.

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What is the Convention of

1800?

Round 2

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improved relations between the U.S. and

Spain now that the U.S. had full access to New

Orleans.

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What is the Pinckney Treaty?

Round 2

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Though not mentioned in the Constitution, George established one of these

by regularly meeting with his four secretaries.

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What is the cabinet?

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In 1793, Washington issued this statement in response to the war between France and

Britain.

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What is the Neutrality

Proclamation?

Round 2

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Washington set a foreign policy precedent of

isolationism when he gave this in 1797.

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What is his Farewell Speech?

Round 2

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Washington led an army part of the way in 1794

when this rebellion broke out in western

Pennsylvania.

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What is the Whiskey

Rebellion?

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Washington signed this law into effect providing

for a federal court system, including the

Supreme Court.

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What is the Judiciary Act of

1789?

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Mr. Adams was the leader of this political

party.AnswerScoreboard

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What is the Federalist

Party?Round 2

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This event created war fever in America, after three French agents “dissed”

American diplomats in France.

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What is the XYZ Affair?

Round 2

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Adams lost a presidential

election to Thomas Jefferson in this

year.Scoreboard Answer

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What is 1800?

Round 2

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These two 1798 laws were passed by the

Federalists to silence Jeffersonian opposition

to the Quasi-War.

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What are the Alien and

Sedition Acts?

Round 2

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Jefferson and Madison expressed their opposition to the Alien and Sedition

Acts with these two “compact theory”

resolutions.

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What are the Virginia and

Kentucky Resolutions?

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Hamilton based his argument in favor of the National Bank on

this view of the Constitution.

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What is “loose construction”

(or “broad construction”)?

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A compromise on this Hamiltonian measure

gave the new national capital to

the South.

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What is the assumption of state debts?

Round 2

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This Hamiltonian measure was

responsible for the largest share of

government revenues.

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What are tariffs (customs duties)?

Round 2

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This aspect of Hamilton’s plan

provoked the Whiskey Rebellion.

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What is the excise tax on

whiskey?

Round 2

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Common people who bought bonds during the

Revolution criticized Hamilton for not informing

them of this new government policy.

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What is funding at

par?Round 2

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The official action agreed to by the First Continental Congress was the creation of

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