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Stack #179989
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Name of May 1787 meeting in Philedalphia | Constitutional Convention |
| Site given to the May 1787 convention to revise the articles of confederation | Philedalphia |
| Year of Shays Rebellion | 1786 |
| Revolt in Western Mass by veteran farmers | Shays Rebellion |
| A period where buisness is slow, prices and wages fall and unemployment rises | Depression |
| What set up a government for the northwest territory and outlawed slavery? | Northwest Ordinance of 1787 |
| President of Constitutional Convention | George Washinton |
| What was the 1st american constitution? | Articles of Confederation (1781) |
| What lists the freedoms a government has to protect? | Bill of Rights |
| A document that sets out the laws and principles of a government. | Constitution |
| British general defeated at Yorktown. | Cornwallis |
| Final battle of American Revolution | Yorktown |
| Treaty which ended the American Revolution | Treaty of Paris (1783) |
| People who stayed loyal to England | Loyalists |
| January 1776 amphlet which conceived people to support american Independance, and who wrote it? | Common Sense and Thomas Paine |
| Who warned the minutemen that the Regulars were coming? | Paul Rever, William Dawes, and Dr. Samuel Prescott |
| Colonial Response to Lexington and Concord? | Second Continental Congress |
| Third town in which minutemen fought regulars on April 19, 1775 | Menotomy |
| This called for the Land called the Northwest territory to be survey and divided into townships | Land Ordinance of 1783 |
| Two towns in which colonial minutemen engaged the British regulars on April 19, 1775 | Lexington and Concord |
| On April 19, 1775, General Gage sent troops to seize a colonial ..... and to arrest ....... &.......... | Ammunition , John Hancock, and Samuel Adams |
| Colonial armies set up by te First Continental Congress | Militias |
| Year of the First Continental Congress | 1774 |
| Assembly of delegates from 12 colonies to unite against the Intolerable Acts | First Continental Congress |
| WHo offered a resolution to the continental Congress that "These United Colonies are and out of right to be , free and independent" | Richard Henry Lee |
| Commitee of the declaration of Independance | John Adams, Ben Franklin, Robert Livingston, Thomas Jefferson, Roger Sherman |
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