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Albany Plan of Union - ANSWER✔✔Ben Franklin's plan to unite the colonies
under one government to defeat France.
Molasses Act - ANSWER✔✔Attempt by British authorities to squelch colonial
trade with French West Indies
Navigation Act of 1660 - ANSWER✔✔act that made possible the collection of
import taxes and gave English merchants better opportunites
William Pitt - ANSWER✔✔English statesman who brought the Seven Years' War
to an end (1708-1778)
Northwest Passage - ANSWER✔✔a sea passage between the Atlantic and the
Pacific along the north coast of North America
Boston Massacre (1770) - ANSWER✔✔incident in 1770 in which British troops
fired on and killed American colonists
First Continental Congress - ANSWER✔✔meeting of delegates from most of the
colonies, called in reaction to the Intolerable Acts
Intolerable Acts - ANSWER✔✔series of laws passed in 1774 to punish Boston for
the Tea Party
,Lexington and Concord - ANSWER✔✔the first battle of the American Revolution
(April 19, 1775)
Bunker Hill - ANSWER✔✔bloody battle; colonists defeated but nearly 1000
British dead or wounded
Valley Forge - ANSWER✔✔Place where Washington's army spent the winter of
1777-1778
Saratoga Campaign - ANSWER✔✔Turning point of the war; Burgoyne forced to
surrender his entire Northern Army to Washington and then colonists win
Articles of Confederation - ANSWER✔✔A weak constitution that governed
America during the Revolutionary War.
Virginia Plan - ANSWER✔✔*Three branches of government
*Two house legislature
*Large states > Small states
New Jersey Plan - ANSWER✔✔A constitutional proposal that would have given
each state one vote in a new congress
Commerce and Slave Trade Compromise - ANSWER✔✔Congress was forbidden
the power to tax the export of goods from any state
, Federalist Papers - ANSWER✔✔Written by Hamilton, Jay, & Madison to support
ratification of the U.S. Constituiton
Anti-Federalists Papers - ANSWER✔✔Arguments made against the written
constitution - no strong central goverment because it leads to tyranny
Anti-Federalists Legislation - ANSWER✔✔Passed the Bill of Rights to protect
basic human rights from tyranny
John Adams - ANSWER✔✔2nd President of the United States. Prided himself
with keeping peace with France
Thomas Jefferson - ANSWER✔✔Author of the Declaration of Independence and
third president and thought states should be stronger
Alexander Hamilton - ANSWER✔✔United States statesman and leader of the
Federalists- his dispute with Jefferson gave the first leads to political parties
Whigs (Patriots) - ANSWER✔✔These people tended to be Aristocrats, indebted
businessmen, and other revolutionaries
Democratic-Republicans - ANSWER✔✔An early political party headed by
Thomas Jefferson; stood for less centralized government
Jacksonian Democracy - ANSWER✔✔A policy of spreading more political power
to more people. It was a "Common Man" theme.
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