Period 3

Question 1

First European war for control over North America including Britain

Answer 1

King William’s War (1689-1697)

Question 2

Second European war for control over North American including Britain

Answer 2

Queen Anne’s War (1702-1713)

Question 3

Name of the war that eventually merged with the War of Austrian Succession

Answer 3

King George’s War (1744-1748)

Question 4

Major war that would define the following years in American History

Answer 4

Seven Years’ War/French and Indian War (1754-1763)

Question 5

Washington’s defeat in 1754 against the French

Answer 5

Forced to surrender after digging in on the fourth of July, 1754, after a 10 hour long siege.

Question 6

Albany Congress

Answer 6

A union between seven of the thirteen colonies to protect themselves from outside threats devised by Benjamin Franklin.

Question 7

Start of the Seven Years’ War for the British

Answer 7

Many British defeats ruining their image as an invincible force and making colonies view them more negatively.

Question 8

Turning point in the Seven Years’ War

Answer 8

General William Pitt managed to conquer all of Canada starting in 1758 taking Louisbourg, then Quebec, Followed by Montreal. Eventually, the peace settlement at Paris was signed taking France of of North America.

Question 9

Pontiac’s War

Answer 9

A Native American uprising in 1763 that almost took all British influence out of the territory west of the Appalachians.

Question 10

Radical Whigs

Answer 10

A group of British commentators who feared the crown due to it threatening Liberty. It was one of the two main roots of revolution.

Question 11

Admiralty Courts

Answer 11

Startec during Grenville’s rule in parliament, it was a court without jury and also working with guilty until proven innocent standards.

Question 12

Stamp Act Congress

Answer 12

A union between 9 colonies to protest the widely unpopular Stamp Act.

Question 13

Sugar Act

Answer 13

An act passed in 1764 that marked the first attempts to tax the colonies done by the British.

Question 14

Quartering Act(1765)

Answer 14

An act passed in 1765 that forced colonies to provide shelter for British troops stationed there.

Question 15

Stamp Act

Answer 15

A very controversial British Taxing measure that was a softer version of an existing version in London.

Question 16

Declaratory Act

Answer 16

An act passed in 1766 that declared parliament as being able to do anything they wanted in the colonies.

Question 17

Townshend Acts

Answer 17

A collection of taxes passed on 1767 by Parliament which expanded on pre-existing laws which was negatively received due to timing, resulting to a profit of 295 pounds.

Question 18

Boston Massacre

Answer 18

The result of the Protest in 1770 in Boston which after increasing tensions, ended with british troops opening fire on the colonists.

Question 19

Boston Tea Party

Answer 19

The destruction of tea done by the sons of liberty in 1773.

Question 20

Intolerable Acts

Answer 20

Acts viewed as the most drastic infringement of the rights of colonists beginning in 1774 after the Boston Tea Party.

Question 21

Quartering Act(1774)

Answer 21

An expansion to the original Quartering Act that allowed for troops to live in colonists’ homes.

Question 22

First Continental Congress

Answer 22

A delegation of 12 of the 13 colonies which discussed how to respond to the intolerable acts that would meet again in 1775.

Question 23

The Association

Answer 23

An entity formed by the First Continental Congress to boycott British Goods.

Question 24

Quebec Act

Answer 24

An Act that gave much of the recently obtained land west of the Appalachians to the province of Quebec passed in 1774 and perceived as one of the Intolerable Acts.

Question 25

Lexington and Concord

Answer 25

The first battle of the American Revolution. It was fought in April of 1775 and ended in a Colonial Victory.

Question 26

Valley Forge

Answer 26

The worst point of the war for the Colonists. This was during the cruel winter of 1777-1778 leading to many desertions and deaths from frostbite and starvation.

Question 27

Saratoga

Answer 27

A humiliating victory by Colonial troops in 1777, leading to the French officially joining the war.

Question 28

Second Continental Congress

Answer 28

The second reunion of all colonies in 1775, which immediately made George Washington general and eventually made the Declaration of Independence and Articles of Confederation.

Question 29

Bunker Hill

Answer 29

An embarrassing victory for the British who lost thousands of men to a small Colonial resistance at Breed's Hill.

Question 30

Olive Branch Petition

Answer 30

A last ditch attempt to fix the chaos ongoing in the Colonies by directly asking the king to return to pre 1763 relations. This was declined.

Question 31

Hessians

Answer 31

German mercenaries who were known for deserting and being ruthless.

Question 32

Common Sense

Answer 32

A work by Thomas Paine which argued for the independence of the colonies seeing how many intolerable actions were already taken by the crown.

Question 33

Declaration of Independence

Answer 33

The official Independence of the American Colonies signed on July 4, 1776.

Question 34

Trenton

Answer 34

A battle in which George Washington managed to capture a thousand Hessian Troops.

Question 35

Treaty of Fort Stanwix

Answer 35

A treaty the Iroquois were forced to sign in 1784 after British defeat, forcing them to ceed most of their land.

Question 36

Yorktown

Answer 36

The "Last" Battle of the Revolutionary, ended in October 19, 1781 with the surrender of all of general Cornwallis's men.

Question 37

Treaty of Paris

Answer 37

The official end to the American Revolution signed in 1783, granting the new country a lot of land and favorable terms.

Question 38

Articles of Confederation

Answer 38

The first actual government of the United States which was known for its weak central government.

Question 39

Land Ordinance of 1785

Answer 39

An act passed by Congress in 1785 which distributed land in the Old Northwest.

Question 40

Northwest Ordinance of 1787

Answer 40

An act passed by Congress in 1787 which defined how new states would be created.

Question 41

Shays's Rebelion

Answer 41

A rebellion in 1786 which showed the Articles of Confederation major weakness, their lack of any power. Led by veteran Daniel Shays and was suppressed by a Massachusetts militia. This rebellion was caused by the crazy taxes leading to many debtors.

Question 42

Great Compromise

Answer 42

A union of the Virginia Plan and the Jersey Plan that established the 2 seat senate and the house of representatives based on state size.

Question 43

Three-fifths Compromised

Answer 43

A compromise which acknowledged a slave as three-fifths of a person for representation. This compromised also managed to not say slave a single time when written.

Question 44

Electoral College

Answer 44

Rather than having the mob which led to near anarchy, an Electoral College was decided to be added to the constitution for selecting a president.

Question 45

Federalists

Answer 45

A faction who wanted a strong central government which was very organized and had figures like George Washington and Alexander Hamilton behind it.

Question 46

Society of the Cincinnati

Answer 46

An organization made by the Continental Army to spread the virtues of the Revolution which would prove controversial due to a hereditary order.

Question 47

The Cabinet

Answer 47

Established by George Washington to help out in managing the country.

Question 48

Bill of Rights

Answer 48

The first 10 amendments of the constitution written by James Madison which declared the rights of the people.

Question 49

Judiciary Act of 1789

Answer 49

An act passed by congress to establish the Judicial Branch in the United States Government.

Question 50

Funding at par

Answer 50

An idea by Alexander Hamilton to strengthen control of the government by tying people who had debts with the states or government to its success.

Question 51

Bank of the United States

Answer 51

A controversial decision passed by Alexander Hamilton to establish a bank to have all federal funds in.

Question 52

Battle of the Wabash

Answer 52

A defeat that rattled the Washington Administration as it was the second defeat to a native american force.

Question 53

Whiskey Rebellion

Answer 53

A rebellion caused by the Whiskey tax imposed by Alexander Hamilton to raise funds. This rebellion never got off the ground and was crushed by a 13000 strong force.

Question 54

Neutrality Proclamation

Answer 54

Washington's view of how matters should be handled to prevent the country from falling. This proclamation in 1793, made the United States neutral in the up and coming French Revolution.

Question 55

Battle of Fallen Timbers

Answer 55

A victory by General "Mad Anthony" Wayne that pushed out natives from the Old North Western territories.

Question 56

Jay's treaty

Answer 56

A controversial treaty signed by Jay which ended in compensation for confiscated vessels and pledges to remove troops already promised to be removed from the Old Northwestern Territory.

Question 57

Pinckney's Treaty

Answer 57

A very successful treaty for the United States signed out of fear from Spain that the U.S. would ally with Britain.

Question 58

XYZ Affair

Answer 58

An affair caused by a delegation being forced to pay a quarter of a million dollars just to talk with the ruler of France. This offer was rejected and the delegation was praised back in the United States.

Question 59

Convention of 1800

Answer 59

A treaty signed by France and the U.S. that ended the old treaty between both nations which no longer benefited both sides.

Question 60

Federalist Party

Answer 60

One of the first political party that argued for a strong central government and rule by the educated and propertied.

Question 61

Democratic-Republican (Jeffersonian) Party

Answer 61

One of the first political parties that argued for a weakened central government and rule by the informed masses.