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RoundOne
UltimateQuestion
Washington JeffersonAdams
RoundTwo
Category #1 Category #2 Category #3 Category #4 Category #5 Category #6Battles
Causes of the
Revolution
ImportantPeople
LawsArticles of Confedera-
tion
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The Constitu-
tion
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America’s victory in this 1777 battle resulted in France coming to the aid
of the U.S.
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What is Saratoga?
Round 1
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This was the last major battle of the American Revolution: Cornwallis surrendered to the U.S.
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What is Yorktown (1781)?
Round 1
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This was the first battle of the
American Revolution.
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What is Lexington
and Concord?
Round 1
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After this bloody battle on the hills surrounding
Boston, the king officially declared the colonies in rebellion.
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What is Bunker Hill?
Round 1
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George Washington may have saved the Patriot cause when he crossed the Delaware River and defeated Hessians at
this location.Scoreboard Answer
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What is Trenton?
Round 1
$100This 1765 meeting was
perhaps the most important of the
revolutionary era because 9 colonies worked together in resisting British policy.
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What is the Stamp Act Congress?
Round 1
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The “Intolerable” Acts were passed
in response to this colonial
action. Scoreboard Answer
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What is the Boston Tea
Party, 1774?Round 1
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This law marked the end of “salutary neglect.”
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What is the Proclamation
of 1763?
Round 1
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The Second Continental Congress
was formed in response to this
event.
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What is the Battle of
Lexington and Concord, 1775?
Round 1
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The Boston Massacre occurred largely
because Americans had resisted this
1767 act of taxation.
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What are the Townshend Acts, 1767?
Round 1
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The “natural rights” philosophy of this
Englishman provided the foundation for the Declaration of
Independence. AnswerScoreboard
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Who is John Locke?
Round 1
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This “Common Sense” writer convinced
Congress to declare its independence.
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Who is Thomas Paine?
Round 1
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This British Prime Minister sought to
impose British control over the colonies, thus
ending Salutary Neglect.
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Who is George
Grenville?Round 1
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This Massachusetts leader founded the “Sons of Liberty.”
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Who is Samuel Adams?
Round 1
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This Founding Father earlier wrote in his Letter From a Pennsylvania Farmer that
Britain did not have the right to impose either internal or
external taxes on the colonies.
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Who is John Dickinson?
Round 1
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These laws sought to enforce Britain’s
mercantilist system
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What are the Navigation
Laws?Round 1
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This 1764 act was the first
intending to directly tax the
colonies.Scoreboard Answer
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What are the Sugar Acts?
Round 1
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Great Britain passed this face-saving
measure immediately after it repealed the Stamp Act in 1766.
Scoreboard Answer
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What is the Declaratory
Act?
Round 1
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This 1787 law banned slavery north of the
Ohio River and provided rules for
attaining statehood.
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What is the Northwest
Ordinance of 1787?
Round 1
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The Boston Tea Party was a
response to this British law.
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What is the Tea Act?
Round 1
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The biggest weakness of the Articles of
Confederation was its inability to regulate
this.
AnswerScoreboard
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What is interstate
commerce?Round 1
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This 1786-87 rebellion convinced wealthy Americans that a stronger central government was
needed. Scoreboard Answer
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What is Shays’ Rebellion?
Round 1
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This meeting was called by Alexander Hamilton in 1785-86 to revise the
Articles and promote economic growth.
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What is the Annapolis
Convention?
Round 1
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This law provided for the organized settlement of the Old Northwest.
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What is the Land
Ordinance of 1785?
Round 1
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This plot conceived by military officers sought to
overthrow the government in 1783. George Washington
stopped it.
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What is the Newburgh
Conspiracy?
Round 1
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This agreement resulted in the creation of a
bicameral legislature: the Senate and House of Representatives.
AnswerScoreboard
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What is the Great Compromise (Connecticut
Compromise)?
Round 1
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Montesquieu provided the philosophical
foundation for this structure of government.
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What are checks and balances
(separation of powers)?Round 1
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The issue of counting slaves as
part of the Southern
population was resolved by this
agreement. Scoreboard Answer
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What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
Round 1
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In order to select a president with a small number of voters, this system was created.
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What is the Electoral College?
Round 1
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Question
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Among the several authors of the
Constitution, this Virginian is considered
the most important.
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Who is James Madison?
Round 1
Category #1 Category #2 Category #3 Category #4 Category #6Ratifica-tion
Debate
Revolution and Social
Change
Treaties & Conven-
tions
President Washing-
ton
President Adams
Hamilton’s Financial
Plan
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$200Anti-Federalists’ most
common complaint about the Constitution
was that it lacked one of
these.
AnswerScoreboard
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What is a bill of
rights?Round 2
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This many states needed to ratify the Constitution in order for it to
take effect.Scoreboard Answer
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What is nine?
Round 2
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These anonymous newspaper articles in New York, later collected into a single volume, helped the
ratification of the Constitution.
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What are the Federalist Papers?
Round 2
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These three authors
anonymously published the
Federalist Papers.Scoreboard Answer
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Who are Madison,
Hamilton, and Jay?
Round 2
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The Constitution officially took
effect in this year.
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What is 1789?
Round 2
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This was the first national constitutional
government in the history of the United
States.
AnswerScoreboard
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What is the Articles of
Confederation?
Round 2
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This Massachusetts wife demanded of her famous husband that women be given more rights during the revolution—she would be bitterly disappointed.
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Who is Abigail Adams?
Round 2
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80,000 of these conservative pro-
British colonists left the U.S. as a result of
the Revolution.
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Who are the Loyalists (Tories)?
Round 2
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Scoreboard Answer
These two aristocratic privileges of
inheritance were outlawed after the
Revolution.
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What are primogeniture
and entail?
Round 2
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Question
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The Quok Walker case represented the end of this institution in
Massachusetts.
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What is slavery?
Round 2
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This treaty recognized the independence of the U.S. and granted it much land east of the Mississippi River.
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What is the Treaty of
Paris, 1783?Round 2
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This treaty so divided the Hamiltonians and
Jeffersonians in the 1790s that two official political
parties emerged.
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What is the Jay Treaty?
Round 2
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This 1795 treaty effectively removed
Native Americans from much of the Ohio
territory.
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What is the Treaty of
Greenville?Round 2
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This agreement ended the Quasi-War between the U.S. and France.
Scoreboard Answer
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What is the Convention of
1800?
Round 2
$1000This 1795 treaty
improved relations between the U.S. and
Spain now that the U.S. had full access to New
Orleans.
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What is the Pinckney Treaty?
Round 2
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Though not mentioned in the Constitution, George established one of these
by regularly meeting with his four secretaries.
AnswerScoreboard
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What is the cabinet?
Round 2
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In 1793, Washington issued this statement in response to the war between France and
Britain.
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What is the Neutrality
Proclamation?
Round 2
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Washington set a foreign policy precedent of
isolationism when he gave this in 1797.
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What is his Farewell Speech?
Round 2
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Washington led an army part of the way in 1794
when this rebellion broke out in western
Pennsylvania.
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What is the Whiskey
Rebellion?
Round 2
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Question
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Washington signed this law into effect providing
for a federal court system, including the
Supreme Court.
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What is the Judiciary Act of
1789?
Round 2
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Mr. Adams was the leader of this political
party.AnswerScoreboard
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What is the Federalist
Party?Round 2
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This event created war fever in America, after three French agents “dissed”
American diplomats in France.
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What is the XYZ Affair?
Round 2
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Adams lost a presidential
election to Thomas Jefferson in this
year.Scoreboard Answer
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What is 1800?
Round 2
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These two 1798 laws were passed by the
Federalists to silence Jeffersonian opposition
to the Quasi-War.
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What are the Alien and
Sedition Acts?
Round 2
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Jefferson and Madison expressed their opposition to the Alien and Sedition
Acts with these two “compact theory”
resolutions.
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What are the Virginia and
Kentucky Resolutions?
Round 2
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Hamilton based his argument in favor of the National Bank on
this view of the Constitution.
AnswerScoreboard
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What is “loose construction”
(or “broad construction”)?
Round 2
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A compromise on this Hamiltonian measure
gave the new national capital to
the South.
Scoreboard Answer
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What is the assumption of state debts?
Round 2
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This Hamiltonian measure was
responsible for the largest share of
government revenues.
Scoreboard Answer
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What are tariffs (customs duties)?
Round 2
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This aspect of Hamilton’s plan
provoked the Whiskey Rebellion.
Scoreboard Answer
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What is the excise tax on
whiskey?
Round 2
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Common people who bought bonds during the
Revolution criticized Hamilton for not informing
them of this new government policy.
Scoreboard Answer
$1000
What is funding at
par?Round 2
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The official action agreed to by the First Continental Congress was the creation of
this.
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What is the Association?
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