AP U.S. History Bowl Units 2 & 3
Ultimate Question Round 1 Round 2 Jefferson Washington Adams
Battles Causes of the Revolution Important People Laws Articles of Confed- eration Consti- tution $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $500 $500 $500 $500 $500 $500
$100 America’s victory in this 1777 battle resulted in France coming to the aid of the U.S. Scoreboard Answer
$100 What is Saratoga? Scoreboard
$200 This was the last major battle of the American Revolution: Cornwallis surrendered to the U.S. Scoreboard Answer
$200 What is Yorktown? Scoreboard
This was the first battle of the American Revolution. $300 This was the first battle of the American Revolution. Scoreboard Answer
What is Lexington and Concord? $300 What is Lexington and Concord? Scoreboard
$400 After this bloody battle on the hills surrounding Boston, the king officially declared the colonies in rebellion. Scoreboard Answer
$400 What is Bunker Hill? Scoreboard
$500 George Washington may have saved the Patriot cause when he crossed the Delaware River and defeated Hessians at this location. Scoreboard Answer
$500 What is Trenton? Scoreboard
$100 This 1765 gathering was perhaps the most important of the revolutionary era because 9 colonies worked together in resisting British policy. Scoreboard Answer
What is the Stamp Act Congress? $100 What is the Stamp Act Congress? Scoreboard
$200 The “Intolerable” Acts were passed in response to this colonial action. Scoreboard Answer
What is the Boston Tea Party, 1774? $200 What is the Boston Tea Party, 1774? Scoreboard
This law symbolized the end of “Salutary Neglect.” $300 This law symbolized the end of “Salutary Neglect.” Scoreboard Answer
What is the Proclamation of 1763? $300 What is the Proclamation of 1763? Scoreboard
The Second Continental Congress was formed in response to this event. $400 The Second Continental Congress was formed in response to this event. Scoreboard Answer
What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord? $400 What is the Battle of Lexington and Concord? Scoreboard
$500 The Boston Massacre occurred largely because Americans had resisted this 1767 act of taxation. Scoreboard Answer
What are the Townshend Acts? $500 What are the Townshend Acts? Scoreboard
$100 The natural rights philosophy of this Englishman provided the foundation for the Declaration of Independence. Scoreboard Answer
$100 Who is John Locke? Scoreboard
$200 This “Common Sense” writer convinced Congress to declare its independence. Scoreboard Answer
$200 Who is Thomas Paine? Scoreboard
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$300 This British Prime Minister sought to impose British control over the colonies, thus ending Salutary Neglect. Scoreboard Answer
Who is George Grenville? $300 Who is George Grenville? Scoreboard
This Massachusetts leader founded the “Sons of Liberty.” $400 This Massachusetts leader founded the “Sons of Liberty.” Scoreboard Answer
$400 Who is Samuel Adams? Scoreboard
$500 This Founding Father 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. Scoreboard Answer
$500 Who is John Dickinson? Scoreboard
These laws sought to enforce Britain’s mercantilist system. $100 These laws sought to enforce Britain’s mercantilist system. Scoreboard Answer
What are the Navigation Laws? $100 What are the Navigation Laws? Scoreboard
This 1764 act was the first intending to directly tax the colonies. $200 This 1764 act was the first intending to directly tax the colonies. Scoreboard Answer
$200 What is the Sugar Act? Scoreboard
. $300 Great Britain passed this face-saving measure immediately after it repealed the Stamp Act in 1766. Scoreboard Answer
What is the Declaratory Act? $300 What is the Declaratory Act? Scoreboard
$400 This 1787 law banned slavery north of the Ohio River and provided rules for attaining statehood. Scoreboard Answer
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787? $400 What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787? Scoreboard
The Boston Tea Party was a response to this British law. $500 The Boston Tea Party was a response to this British law. Scoreboard Answer
$500 What is the Tea Act? Scoreboard
$100 The biggest weakness of the Articles of Confederation was its inability to regulate this. Scoreboard Answer
What is interstate commerce? $100 What is interstate commerce? Scoreboard
$200 This meeting was called by Alexander Hamilton in 1785-86 to revise the Articles and promote economic growth. Scoreboard Answer
What is the Annapolis Convention? $200 What is the Annapolis Convention? Scoreboard
$300 This 1786-87 rebellion convinced wealthy Americans that a stronger central government was needed. Scoreboard Answer
What is Shays’ Rebellion? $300 What is Shays’ Rebellion? Scoreboard
This law provided for the organized settlement of the Old Northwest. $400 This law provided for the organized settlement of the Old Northwest. Scoreboard Answer
What is the Land Ordinance of 1785? $400 What is the Land Ordinance of 1785? Scoreboard
$500 This plot conceived by military officers sought to overthrow the government in 1783. George Washington stopped it. Scoreboard Answer
What is the Newburgh Conspiracy? $500 What is the Newburgh Conspiracy? Scoreboard
$100 This agreement resulted in the creation of a bicameral legislature: the Senate and House of Representatives. Scoreboard Answer
What is the Great Compromise? $100 What is the Great Compromise? Scoreboard
$200 Montesquieu provided the philosophical foundation this structure of government. Scoreboard Answer
What are checks and balances (separation of powers)? $200 What are checks and balances (separation of powers)? Scoreboard
$300 The issue of counting slaves as part of the Southern population was resolved by this agreement. Scoreboard Answer
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise? $300 What is the Three-Fifths Compromise? Scoreboard
$400 In order to select a president with a small number of voters, this system was created. Scoreboard Answer
What is the Electoral College? $400 What is the Electoral College? Scoreboard
$500 Among the several authors of the Constitution, this Virginian is considered the most important. Scoreboard Answer
$500 Who is James Madison? Scoreboard
President Hamilton’s $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $400 $400 $400 $400 Ratifica -tion Debate Revolution & Social Change Treaties & Conven- tions President Washing- ton President Adams Hamilton’s Financial Plan $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $600 $800 $800 $800 $800 $800 $800 $1000 $1000 $1000 $1000 $1000 $1000
$200 Anti-Federalists’ most common complaint about the Constitution was that it lacked one of these. Scoreboard Answer
$200 What is a bill of rights? Scoreboard
$400 This many states needed to ratify the Constitution in order for it to take effect. Scoreboard Answer
$400 What is nine? Scoreboard
$600 These anonymous newspaper articles in New York, later collected into a single volume, helped the ratification of the Constitution. Scoreboard Answer
What are the Federalist Papers? $600 What are the Federalist Papers? Scoreboard
These three authors anonymously published the Federalist Papers. $800 These three authors anonymously published the Federalist Papers. Scoreboard Answer
Who are Madison, Hamilton and Jay? $800 Who are Madison, Hamilton and Jay? Scoreboard
The Constitution officially took effect beginning in this year. $1000 The Constitution officially took effect beginning in this year. Scoreboard Answer
$1000 What is 1789? Scoreboard
$200 This was the first national constitutional government in the history of the United States. Scoreboard Answer
What is the Articles of Confederation? $200 What is the Articles of Confederation? Scoreboard
$400 This Massachusetts woman demanded of her husband that women be given more rights during the revolution—she would be bitterly disappointed. Scoreboard Answer
$400 Who is Abigail Adams? Scoreboard
$600 These two aristocratic privileges of inheritance were outlawed after the Revolution. Scoreboard Answer
What are primogeniture and entail? $600 What are primogeniture and entail? Scoreboard
$800 80,000 of these conservative pro-British colonists left the U.S. as a result of the Revolution. Scoreboard Answer
Who are the Loyalists (or Tories)? $800 Who are the Loyalists (or Tories)? Scoreboard
$1000 The Quok Walker case represented the end of this institution in Massachusetts. Scoreboard Answer
$1000 What is slavery? Scoreboard
$200 This treaty recognized the independence of the U.S. and granted it much land east of the Mississippi River. Scoreboard Answer
What is the Treaty of Paris, 1783? $200 What is the Treaty of Paris, 1783? Scoreboard
$400 This treaty so divided the Hamiltonians and Jeffersonians in the 1790s that two official political parties emerged. Scoreboard Answer
$400 What is the Jay Treaty? Scoreboard
$600 This 1795 treaty effectively removed Native Americans from much of the Ohio Valley. Scoreboard Answer
What is the Treaty of Greenville? $600 What is the Treaty of Greenville? Scoreboard
This agreement ended the Quasi-War between the U.S. and France. $800 This agreement ended the Quasi-War between the U.S. and France. Scoreboard Answer
What is the Convention of 1800? $800 What is the Convention of 1800? Scoreboard
$1000 This 1795 treaty improved relations between the U.S. and Spain now that the U.S. had full access to New Orleans. Scoreboard Answer
What is the Pinckney Treaty? $1000 What is the Pinckney Treaty? Scoreboard
$200 Though not mentioned in the Constitution, George established one of these by regularly meeting with his four secretaries. Scoreboard Answer
$200 What is a cabinet? Scoreboard
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$400 Washington issued this statement in 1793 in response to the war between France and Britain. Scoreboard Answer
What is the Neutrality Proclamation? $400 What is the Neutrality Proclamation? Scoreboard
$600 Washington signed this law into effect providing for a federal court system, including the Supreme Court. Scoreboard Answer
What is the Judiciary Act of 1789? $600 What is the Judiciary Act of 1789? Scoreboard
$800 Washington set a foreign policy precedent of isolationism when he gave this in 1797. Scoreboard Answer
What is his Farewell Address? $800 What is his Farewell Address? Scoreboard
$1000 Washington led an army part of the way in 1794 when this rebellion broke out in western Pennsylvania. Scoreboard Answer
What is the Whiskey Rebellion? $1000 What is the Whiskey Rebellion? Scoreboard
Mr. Adams was the leader of this political party. $200 Mr. Adams was the leader of this political party. Scoreboard Answer
What is the Federalist Party? $200 What is the Federalist Party? Scoreboard
$400 This event created war fever in America, after three French agents “dissed” American diplomats in France. Scoreboard Answer
$400 What is the XYZ Affair? Scoreboard
$600 These two 1798 laws were passed by Federalists to silence Jeffersonian opposition to the Quasi-War. Scoreboard Answer
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts? $600 What are the Alien and Sedition Acts? Scoreboard
$800 Jefferson and Madison expressed their opposition to the Alien and Sedition Acts with these two “compact theory” resolutions. Scoreboard Answer
What are the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions? $800 What are the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions? Scoreboard
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Adams lost a presidential election to Thomas Jefferson in this year. $1000 Adams lost a presidential election to Thomas Jefferson in this year. Scoreboard Answer
$1000 What is 1800? Scoreboard
$200 Hamilton based his argument in favor of the National Bank on this view of the Constitution. Scoreboard Answer
What is “loose construction?” $200 What is “loose construction?” Scoreboard
$400 A compromise on this Hamiltonian measure gave the new national capital to the South. Scoreboard Answer
What is the assumption of state debts? $400 What is the assumption of state debts? Scoreboard
$600 This Hamiltonian measure was responsible for the largest share of government revenues. Scoreboard Answer
What is the tariff (customs duties)? $600 What is the tariff (customs duties)? Scoreboard
This aspect of Hamilton’s plan provoked the Whiskey Rebellion. $800 This aspect of Hamilton’s plan provoked the Whiskey Rebellion. Scoreboard Answer
$800 What are excise taxes? Scoreboard
$1000 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? Scoreboard
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