| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| American victory, turning point of Revolutionary War | Battle of Saratoga | 76%
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| General of the Colonial Army, held army together, main leader | George Washington | 57%
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| Opponents of the constitution | Antifederalists | 52%
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| Final battle, Cornwallis surrenders | Battle of Yorktown | 48%
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| Winter of 1777, 12,000 soldiers, poor conditions | Valley Forge | 43%
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| November 1777, loose union, each state has one vote, 9/13 | Articles of Confederation | 38%
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| Nationalist group, supported a loose, decentralized system, justifying Philidelphia constitiution | Federalists | 38%
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| Devised Virginia Plan, young Republican political theorist | James Madison | 38%
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| Created Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, prohibited slavery in those states/regions | Northwest Ordinance | 29%
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| Devised by William Patterson, confederation could raise revenue, control commerce, make requisitions | New Jersey Plan | 19%
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| Devised by James Madison, plan for powerful national government, could overturn state laws | Virginia Plan | 19%
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| British general, won the Battle of Long Island | William Howe | 14%
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| Raised readiness of American Army at Valley Forge, Prussian who joined American cause | Baron von Steuben | 10%
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| Slowed Burgoyne's progress at Saratoga | Horatio Gates | 5%
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| Wrote "On the Equality of the Sexes", 1779 essay, argued that men and women had equal capacities for memory | Judith Sargent Murray | 5%
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| Philadelphia merchant, chief treasury official, finances crashed | Robert Morris | 5%
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| Resembled American resistance to Stamp Act, 1786-1787, caused by farmers after government created tax on them | Shays's Rebellion | 5%
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| Britain recognizes American independence, gives up Great Lakes + Mississippi, natives lose millions of acres | 1783 Treaty of Paris | 0%
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| An essay written by James Madison which challenged the view of republican governments | Federalists No. 10 | 0%
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