Unit 3

Question 1

A policy that set the boundary known as the Proclamation Line. The British set aside the region west of the crest of the Appalachian Mts. as “Indian Country”

Answer 1

Royal Proclamation of 1763

Question 2

A war launched in 1763 by the Indian confederacy that simultaneously attacked all the British forts in the West

Answer 2

Pontiac’s Rebellion

Question 3

An armed movement of debt-ridden farmers in western MA in the winter of 1786-87. The rebellion created a crisis atmosphere.

Answer 3

Shays’ Rebellion

Question 4

Secret organizations in the colonies formed to oppose the Stamp Act

Answer 4

Sons of Liberty

Question 5

Law passed by Parliament in 1765 to raise revenue in America by requiring taxed, stamped paper for legal documents, publications, and playing cards

Answer 5

Stamp Act

Question 6

Special companies of militia formed in MA and elsewhere beginning in late 1744

Answer 6

minutemen

Question 7

Legislation that prohibited slavery in the Northwest Territories and provided the model for the incorporation of future territories into the union as co-equal states

Answer 7

Northwest Ordinance of 1787

Question 8

A written summary of inalienable rights and liberties

Answer 8

Bill of Rights

Question 9

Opponents of the Constitution in the debate over its ratification

Answer 9

Anti-Federalists

Question 10

Conference of state delegates in Maryland that issued a call in Sept. 1786 for a convention to meet at Philadelphia to consider fundamental changes

Answer 10

Annapolis Convention

Question 11

Plan put forward in 1754 calling for an inter-colonial union to manage defense and Indian affairs. The plan was rejected by participants at the Albany Congress.

Answer 11

Benjamin Franklin’s Plan of Union

Question 12

Written document setting up the loose confederation of the states that comprised the first national government of the United States

Answer 12

Articles of Confederation

Question 13

Law passed in 1776 to accompany repeal of the Stamp Act that stated that Parliament had the authority to legislate for the colonies “in all cases whatsoever”

Answer 13

Declaratory Act

Question 14

After months of increasing friction between townspeople and the British troops stationed in the city, on March 5, 1770 British troops fired on American civilians in Boston

Answer 14

Boston Massacre

Question 15

Incident that occurred on December 16, 1773, in which Bostonians, disguised as Indians, destroyed tea belonging to the British East India Company in order to prevent payment of the duty on it.

Answer 15

Boston Tea Party

Question 16

Committees formed in MA and other colonies in the pre-Revolutionary period to keep Americans informed about British measures that would affect the colonies

Answer 16

Committees of Correspondence

Question 17

The document by which the Second Continental Congress announced and justified its decision to renounce the colonies’ allegiance to the British government

Answer 17

Declaration of Independence

Question 18

Supporters of the Constitution who favored its ratification

Answer 18

Federalists

Question 19

A power implied in the Constitution that gives federal courts the right to review and determine the constitutionality of acts passed by Congress and state legislatures

Answer 19

Judicial Review

Question 20

Acts of Parliament, passed in 767, imposing duties on colonial tea, lead, paint, paper, and glass

Answer 20

Townshend Revenue Acts

Question 21

Proposal of the New Jersey delegation for a strengthened national government in which all states would have an equal representation in a unicameral legislature

Answer 21

New Jersey Plan

Question 22

A derisive term applied to Loyalists in America who supported the king and Parliament just before and during the American Revolution

Answer 22

Tories

Question 23

British colonists who opposed independence from Britain

Answer 23

Loyalists

Question 24

Treaty with Britain negotiated in 1794 in which the United States made major concessions to avert a war over the British seizure of American ships

Answer 24

Jay’s Treaty

Question 25

Diplomatic incident in 1798 in which Americans were outraged by the demand of the French for a bribe as a condition for negotiating with American diplomats

Answer 25

XYZ Affair

Question 26

Treaty of 1795 in which Native Americans in the Old Northwest were forced to cede most of the present state of Ohio to the United States

Answer 26

Treaty of Greenville

Question 27

The notion that parliamentary members represented the interests of the nation as a whole, not those of the particular district that elected them

Answer 27

Virtual Representation

Question 28

Proposal calling for a national legislature in which the states would be represented according to population

Answer 28

Virginia Plan

Question 29

The sharing of powers between the national government and the states

Answer 29

Federalism

Question 30

The last of the Anglo-French colonial wars (1754-1763) and the first in which fighting began in North America. The war ended with France’s defeat.

Answer 30

French and Indian War

Question 31

Law passed in 1764 to raise revenue in the American colonies. It lowered the duty from 6 pence to 3 pence per gallon on foreign molasses imported into the colonies and increased the restrictions on colonial commerce

Answer 31

Sugar Act

Question 32

Meeting of delegates from most of the colonies held in 1774 in response to the Coercive Acts. The Congress endorsed the Suffolk Resolves, adopted the Declaration of Rights and Grievances, and agreed to establish the Continental Association

Answer 32

First Continental Congress

Question 33

Act of Parliament that permitted the East India Company to sell through agents in America without paying the duty customarily collected in Britain, thus reducing the retail price.

Answer 33

Tea Act of 1773

Question 34

Plan proposed at the 1787 Constitutional Convention for creating a national bicameral legislature in which all states would be equally represented in the Senate and proportionally represented in the House

Answer 34

Great Compromise

Question 35

Collective name given to four acts passed by Congress in 1798 that curtailed freedom of speech and the liberty of foreign residents in the United States

Answer 35

Alien and Sedition Acts

Question 36

This woman turned her home into a center of Patriot political activity and published a series of satires supporting the American cause and scorning the Loyalists

Answer 36

Mercy Otis Warren

Question 37

Frontiersmen of Scots-Irish origin from Pennsylvania who formed a vigilante group to retaliate in 1763 against local American Indians in the aftermath of the French and Indian War and Pontiac’s Rebellion. Following attacks on the Conestoga, in January 1764 marched to Philadelphia to present their grievances to the legislature.

Answer 37

March of the Paxton Boys`

Question 38

(March 1780) One of the first attempts by a government in the Western Hemisphere to begin an abolition of slavery. The Act prohibited further importation of slaves into the state, required Pennsylvania slaveholders to annually register their slaves and established that all children born in Pennsylvania were free persons regardless of the condition or race of their parents.

Answer 38

Pennsylvania Gradual Emancipation Law

Question 39

A series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 after the Boston Tea party meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Boston Tea Party. In Great Britain, these laws were referred to as the Coercive Acts.

Answer 39

Intolerable Acts

Question 40

(1798-99) Political statements in which the Kentucky and Virginia legislatures took the position that the federal Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional. The resolutions argued that the states had the right and the duty to declare unconstitutional any acts of Congress that were not authorized by the Constitution. Written secretly by Vice President Thomas Jefferson and James Madison

Answer 40

Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions