Shays’s Rebellion likely heightened the fear of many social and political elites that democracy would begin to make class hierarchies less pronounced.

Alexander Hamilton’s basic vision of America was to make it

The British army under Cornwallis at Yorktown

As the main conflict between armies in the east progressed, ________ and 175 frontiersmen meanwhile journeyed to the Ohio Valley to ________.

During the period of the Revolution, a slave might gain his freedom by

The founding fathers viewed the most democratic entity of the government as the

Luckily for the British, beyond the French, other European powers had little interest in assisting the American colonies.

Which of the following statements accurately describes the delegates who met at the Constitutional Convention?

The Articles of Confederation were fully ratified and became effective

Whereas a(n) ________ would have meant that citizens voted on all major decisions affecting them, the new United States after the Revolutionary War was technically a ________, in which property-holding white men elected representatives, or legislators, to make key decisions on their behalf.