________ in New England were higher due to the Puritan legacy of teaching children to read the Bible.
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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.
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Colonial newspapers
________ discuss ways to alter relationship between mother country and colonies.
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William Pitt
________, the English Prime Minister during the war, was supportive of the colonists and encouraged them to join the war effort.
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Franco American Alliance
________, negotiated by Ben Franklin in 1778, brought the French into the war on the side of the colonists.
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political activity
Women were largely excluded from ________ but had an important civil role and responsibility.
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Jefferson
The animosity between ________ and Hamilton and the growing belligerence between the Federalists and Democratic- Republicans set the ugly, divisive tone for Adamss term.
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Hamilton
________ (broad constructionist) argued bank implied power of government and not explicitly forbidden by Constitution.
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Adams
________ sent three diplomats to Paris, where French officials demanded a huge bribe before they would allow negotiations even to begin.
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George III
________ replaced Prime Minister Grenville with Lord Rockingham, who had opposed the Stamp Act.
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New England
Patriots were mostly white Protestant property holders and gentry, as well as urban artisans, especially in ________.
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Sugar Act
The ________ actually lowered the duty on molasses coming into the colonies from the West Indies.
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Mississippi Valley
The treaty gave England control of Canada and almost everything east of the ________.
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George Washington
________ led a colonial contingent, which attacked a French outpost and lost.
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English settlers
The war was the inevitable result of colonial expansion, where ________ moved into the Ohio Valley, and the French tried to stop them by building fortified outposts.
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Quebec Act
________ (grants greater liberties to Catholics, extends boundaries of Quebec Territory) further impeding westward expansion, causing further dissatisfaction among colonists.
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Revolutionary War
The ________ became a war for independence with the signing of the Declaration.
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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.
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Alexander Hamilton
________ was concerned about no uniform commercial policy and fear for the survival of the new republic.
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Federalists
________ who supported ratification of the Constitution are often the same people as ________ who favored strong federal government.
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Financial plan
________ called for federal government to assume states 'debts, repay by giving debt holders land on western frontier.
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Public virtue
________ had been a strictly masculine quality in the past, private virtue emerged as a very important quality for women.
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Indian War
Also called the French and ________, it was actually one of several "wars for empire "fought between the British and the French.
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Sugar Act
________, Currency Act, and Proclamation of 1763 caused a great deal of discontent in the colonies.
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Goal
enumerate American grievances, develop strategy for addressing grievances, formulate colonial position on relationship between royal government and colonial governments
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