FREE U.S. HISTORY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT PERIOD 3

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FREE U.S. HISTORY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT PERIOD 3

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Question 1: Stamp Act

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1765; tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used.

Question 2: Land Ordinance

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1785 set forth how the government of the United States would measure, divide and distribute the land it had acquired from Great Britain north and west of the Ohio River at the end of the American Revolution.

Question 3: election of 1800

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Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republican) defeated John Adams (Federalist) by a vote of seventy-three to sixty-five

Question 4: Bunker Hill

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british defeated the Americans. Despite their loss, the inexperienced colonial forces inflicted significant casualties against the enemy, and the battle provided them with an important confidence boost.

Question 5: Proclamation of Neutrality

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1793; stated that the US would take no part in a war between two or more other powers, specifically France and Great Britain.

Question 6: Federalism

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Federalism is a mixed or compound mode of government that combines a general government with regional governments in a single political system, dividing the powers between the two.

Question 7: Committees of Correspondence

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shadow governments organized by the Patriot leaders of the Thirteen Colonies on the eve of the American Revolution.

Question 8: Second Contiental Congress

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1775; managed the colonial war effort, and moved incrementally towards independence, adopting the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776

Question 9: The Federalists Papers

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essays written by Madison, Jay and Hamilton written to ease the fears people had about the Constitution.Question 10: Democratic Republicans (also: Anti-Federalists)

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wanted small government limited by a strict interpretation of the Constitution , wanted a Bill of Rights added to the Constitution (Jefferson)

Question 11: Great Compromise

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A delegate from Connecticut, Roger Sherman, proposed a two-house legislature, consisting of a Senate and a House of Representatives.

Question 12: "republican motherhood"

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the idea that daughters and mother should be taught to uphold ideas of Republicanism. They would pass their Republican values to further generations

Question 13: Thomas Paine ; Common Sense

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Inspired people to support independence.

Question 14: Public Land Act (1796)

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intent was to reduce the prices so settlers were able to manage the cost and move into unsettled areas.However, the majority of the individuals that purchased property under this act turned out to be speculators rather than settlers.

Question 15: Stamp Act Congress

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it was the first gathering of elected representatives from several of the American colonies to devise a unified protest against new British taxation.

Question 16: Sugar Act

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1764; set a tax on sugar and molasses imported into the colonies which impacted the manufacture of rum in New England.

Question 17: First Continental Congress

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First Continental Congress - in response to the British Parliament's enactment of the Coercive Acts in the American colonies, the first session of the Continental Congress convenes at Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia.

Question 18: Coercive Acts

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1774; a series of acts established by the British government, wanted to restore order in Massachusetts and punish for their Tea Party, in which members of the revolutionary-minded Sons of Liberty boarded three British tea ships in Boston Harbor to protest

Question 19: Constitutional Convention

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intended to revise the Articles of Confederation, the intention from the outset of many of its proponents, chief among them James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, was to create a new government rather than fix the existing one.

Question 20: XYZ Affair

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political and diplomatic episode in 1797 and 1798, early in the administration of John Adams, involving a confrontation between the United States and Republican France that led to an undeclared war called the Quasi-War

Question 21: Articles of Confederation (strengths)

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one legislature (congress), each state have one equal vote, Northwest Ordinance

Question 22: Pinckney Treaty

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1795; agreement between Spain and the United States, fixing the southern boundary of the United States at 31° N latitude and establishing commercial arrangements favorable to the United States

Question 23: New Jersey Plan

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the unicameral legislature with one vote per state was inherited from the Articles of Confederation.

Question 24: Alexander Hamilton

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First Secretary of the Treasury. Fought for a National Bank.

Question 25: electoral college

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founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens.