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How did the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 address the concern of escaped slaves who were caught north of the Ohio River?

Why did King George III seek to extract more money from the colonists?

In 1765, Patrick Henry introduced seven resolutions in Virginia’s House of Burgesses that challenged the Stamp Act specifically, and Parliament’s tax abilities generally. These seven are collectively called ___________________. 

_________________ was the Virginia militia commander whose troops and Indian allies fired the first shots in what became the global war named the Seven Years’ War? 

Who wrote Common Sense and The American Crisis, the former which advocated American independence? 

Stono, S.C. was the site of…. 

VA and NJ Plans were eventually combined via the “Great Compromise” to help establish what? 

This Gate was a monument

Which confederacy of Native American tribes divided, with some siding with the British and some with the American settlers?

In 1786-1787, _____________ was an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts in response to a debt crisis among the citizenry and in opposition to the state government’s increased efforts to collect taxes on both individuals and their trades. The incident proved to be a catalyst for the Constitutional Convention.