Round 1 Round 2 Ultimate Question

WashingtonWashington AdamsAdams JeffersonJefferson

CausesCausesof theof the

RevolutionRevolutionLawsLaws

ArticlesArticlesof Confed-of Confed-

erationeration

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ImportantImportantPeoplePeopleBattlesBattles

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Consti-Consti-tutiontution

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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?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?Yorktown?

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This was the first battle of the

American Revolution.

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What is Lexington and Lexington and

Concord?Concord?

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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?Bunker Hill?

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George Washington may have saved the Patriot cause when

he crossed the Delaware River and

defeated Hessians at this location.

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What is Trenton?Trenton?

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This 1765 gathering 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 Stamp Act Congress?Congress?

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The “Intolerable”

Acts were passed in

response to this colonial action.

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What is the Boston Tea Boston Tea

Party, 1774?Party, 1774?

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This law symbolized the end

of “Salutary Neglect.”

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What is the Proclamation Proclamation

of 1763?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 Battle of

Lexington and Lexington and Concord?Concord?

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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 Townshend

Acts?Acts?

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The natural rights philosophy of this

Englishman provided the foundation for the

Declaration of Independence.

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Who is John John Locke?Locke?

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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?

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This Massachusetts leader founded the “Sons of Liberty.”

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Who is Samuel Samuel AdamsAdams?

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This Founding Father 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 John Dickinson?Dickinson?

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These laws sought to enforce Britain’s

mercantilist system.

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What are the Navigation Navigation

Laws?Laws?

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This 1764 act was the first intending to

directly tax the colonies.

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What is the Sugar Act?Sugar Act?

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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 Declaratory Act?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 Northwest

Ordinance of Ordinance of 1787?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?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 interstate

commerce?commerce?

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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 Annapolis

Convention?Convention?

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

needed.

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What is Shays’ Shays’ Rebellion?Rebellion?

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

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What is the Land Ordinance Land Ordinance

of 1785?of 1785?

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This plot conceived by military officers

sought to overthrow the government in

1783. George Washington stopped

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Conspiracy?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 Great

Compromise?Compromise?

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Montesquieu provided the philosophical

foundation this structure of government.

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What are checks and checks and balances balances

(separation of (separation of powers)?powers)?

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The issue of counting slaves as part of the Southern population was resolved by this

agreement.

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What is the Three-Fifths Three-Fifths

Compromise? 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 Electoral College?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 James Madison?Madison?

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RevolutionRevolution& Social& SocialChangeChange

PresidentPresidentWashing-Washing-

tonton

PresidentPresidentAdamsAdams

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RatificaRatifica-tion-tion

DebateDebate

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Hamilton’sHamilton’sFinancialFinancial

PlanPlan

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Anti-Federalists’ most common complaint

about the Constitution was that it lacked one

of these.

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What is a bill bill of rights?of rights?

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

take effect.

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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 Federalist PapersPapers??

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These three authors anonymously published the

Federalist Papers.

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Who are Madison, Madison,

Hamilton and Hamilton and Jay?Jay?

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The Constitution officially took

effect beginning in this year.

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What is 1789?1789?

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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 Articles of

ConfederationConfederation??

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This Massachusetts woman demanded of her husband that women be given more rights during

the revolution—she would be bitterly

disappointed.

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Who is Abigail Abigail Adams?Adams?

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These two aristocratic privileges of

inheritance were outlawed after the

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What are primogeniture primogeniture

and entail?and entail?

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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 Loyalists

(or Tories)?(or Tories)?

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The Quok Walker case represented

the end of this institution in

Massachusetts.

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What is slavery?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 What is the Treaty of Treaty of

Paris, 1783?Paris, 1783?

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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?Jay Treaty?

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This 1795 treaty effectively removed Native Americans from much of the

Ohio Valley.

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What is the Treaty of Treaty of

Greenville?Greenville?

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

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What is the Convention Convention

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This 1795 treaty 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 Pinckney Treaty?Treaty?

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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 a cabinet?cabinet?

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Washington issued this statement in

1793 in response to the war between

France and Britain.

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What is the Neutrality Neutrality

Proclamation?Proclamation?

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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 Judiciary Act

of 1789?of 1789?

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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 Farewell Address?Address?

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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 Whiskey

Rebellion?Rebellion?

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Mr. Adams was the leader of this

political party.

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What is the Federalist Federalist

Party?Party?

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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?XYZ Affair?

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These two 1798 laws were passed by

Federalists to silence Jeffersonian

opposition to the Quasi-War.

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What are the Alien and Alien and

Sedition Acts?Sedition Acts?

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$800$800Jefferson and Madison

expressed their opposition to the Alien and Sedition

Acts with these two “compact theory”

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What are the Virginia and Virginia and

Kentucky Kentucky Resolutions?Resolutions?

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Adams lost a presidential

election to Thomas Jefferson in this

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What is 1800?1800?

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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 “loose construction?”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 assumption of state debts?state debts?

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This Hamiltonian measure was

responsible for the largest share of

government revenues.

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What is the tariff (customs tariff (customs

duties)?duties)?

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This aspect of Hamilton’s plan provoked the

Whiskey Rebellion.

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What are excise taxes?excise taxes?

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the Revolution criticized Hamilton for not informing them of this new government

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What is funding at funding at

par?par?

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This was the official This was the official action agreed to by action agreed to by the First Continental the First Continental

Congress.Congress.

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What is the AssociationAssociation??

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