American History

4. Led the sons of liberty and organized the boston tea party
6. A system, where each branch of government can limits the powers of the others
7. Known as the "Father of the Constitution" and leading federalist
12. Leader and commander in chief of the continental army and the first U.S. president
14. Author of the pamphlet "Common Sense", which urged public support for independence
16. Act that required colonist to purchase special stamped paper for legal documents
17. Act of defiance where tea was dumped into the harbor
21. The first postwar government, known for its weak central authority
23. European intellectual movement stressing individual rights that strongly influenced American revolutionaries
25. An enlightenment philosopher, which had the ideals on natural rights which heavily influenced the Declaration of Independence
28. Uprising over taxes on whiskey, suppressed by president Washington to show the strength of the new constitution
29. The concept of a government whose power is shared between national authority and state
30. Major achievement of the Article of Confederation that established a system for admitting new states to the union

1. James Madison proposal for strong national government with bicameral legislature
2. The agreement that created a bicameral legislature, balancing state population and equal representation
3. Compromise reached during the constitutional convention to count enslaved people
5. First secretary of the treasury and influential federalist
8. Document written that established current system of the U.S. government
9. British line established to forbid colonial settlement west from the Appalachian mountains
10. The economic theory where colonies exist to benefit the mother country's wealth
11. Incident where british soldiers fired into a crowd of colonist
13. French nobleman who served as a major general in the Continental army
15. Meeting in Philadelphia, where the Declaration of Independence was drafted
18. The final battle of the revolutionary war, where Cornwallis surrendered to Washington
19. He drafted the Declaration of Independence
20. The war between Britian and France, resulting in British control over territory east of Mississippi river
22. Uprising in Massachusets that exposed the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation
24. Key diplomat, a lawyer for the Boston Massacre soldiers and the second U.S. president
26. American statesman, inventor, and diplomat that helped secure the French alliance and negotiated the Treaty of Paris
27. The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution