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Flashcards by Jenny Johnson, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Jenny Johnson
over 3 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| The invention of this made it possible to clean cotton much faster than ever before | cotton gin |
| The last important battle of the Revolutionary War took place here where Washington captured Cornwallis' army | Yorktown |
| The first ten Amendments to the Constitution protect our freedoms and are called | Bill of Rights |
| The Great Compromise at the Constitutional Convention divided Congress into these 2 parts | Senate & House of Representatives |
| America's ally in the Revolutionary War was | France |
| This ordinance said that a territory could become a state once it had 60,000 people | Northwest Ordinance |
| The Americans captured a British army in upstate New York here after it was defeated at Freedman's Farm | Saratoga |
| The people who supported the Constitution and later became a political party that liked the ideas of Alexander Hamilton were called | Federalists |
| The American army suffered from the cold and lack of supplies, but still managed to learn to fight better under Baron Von Steuban at | Valley Forge |
| Started the first cloth factory in America | Samuel Slater |
| Inventor, printer, spokesman in France | Benjamin Franklin |
| "Father of the Constitution" | James Madison |
| Second President of the United States | John Adams |
| 3rd President, 1st Secretary of State | Thomas Jefferson |
| Captured key forts in the west | George Rogers Clark |
| Hung as a spy by the British | Nathan Hale |
| Leader of the Green Mountain Boys, captured at Fort Ticonderoga | Ethan Allen |
| Inventor of the cotton gin and used interchangeable parts to make guns | Eli Whitney |
| 1st Secretary of the Treasury, wanted a strong federal government | Alexander Hamilton |
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