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John Adams
________ defended the soldiers in court, helping to establish a tradition of giving a fair trial to all who are accused.
William Pitt
________, the English Prime Minister during the war, was supportive of the colonists and encouraged them to join the war effort.
Franco American Alliance
________, negotiated by Ben Franklin in 1778, brought the French into the war on the side of the colonists.
Hamilton
________ (broad constructionist) argued bank implied power of government and not explicitly forbidden by Constitution.
Jefferson
The animosity between ________ and Hamilton and the growing belligerence between the Federalists and Democratic- Republicans set the ugly, divisive tone for Adamss term.
American history
The Declaration has been considered as a seminal document in ________, and has been a source of inspiration for movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.
Adams
________ sent three diplomats to Paris, where French officials demanded a huge bribe before they would allow negotiations even to begin.
New England
Patriots were mostly white Protestant property holders and gentry, as well as urban artisans, especially in ________.
Ohio Valley
The war was the inevitable result of colonial expansion, where English settlers moved into the ________, and the French tried to stop them by building fortified outposts.
Vice President Jefferson
________ led the opposition to the Alien and Sedition Acts.
Sugar Act
The ________ actually lowered the duty on molasses coming into the colonies from the West Indies.
Mississippi Valley
The treaty gave England control of Canada and almost everything east of the ________.
George Washington
________ led a colonial contingent, which attacked a French outpost and lost.
Colonial newspapers
________ discuss ways to alter relationship between mother country and colonies.
Revolutionary War
The ________ became a war for independence with the signing of the Declaration.
Quebec Act
________ (grants greater liberties to Catholics, extends boundaries of Quebec Territory) further impeding westward expansion, causing further dissatisfaction among colonists.
Alexander Hamilton
________ was concerned about no uniform commercial policy and fear for the survival of the new republic.
Financial plan
________ called for federal government to assume states 'debts, repay by giving debt holders land on western frontier.
Proclamation of 1763
________ established a pattern of demarcating "Indian Territory "which would have negative impact on Native Americans.
Indian War
Also called the French and ________, it was actually one of several "wars for empire "fought between the British and the French.
Sugar Act
________, Currency Act, and Proclamation of 1763 caused a great deal of discontent in the colon
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