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