They didn’t want it. Initially the revolution was a petition to get the same rights as other British citizens
Declaratory act
Ethan Allen and the Green mountain boys surround fort Ticonderoga, steal it's cannons, and bring them back to Boston
How would the colonists win? George Washington would lead an army
How would they pay for it? New currency
A dispute over a French fort spiraled into a global conflict. Indigenous tribes tried to play Britain and France off of each other.
XYZ affair
The middle ground
The areas where both colonists and native people would trade and coexist
Articles of confederation
Democratic Republicans
Weak national government
Stamp act congress
Different branches of government could check each other to prevent abuse of power.
republican motherhood
Election of 1797
First contested election in American history, won by John Adams (Washington's vice president)
sedition act
applied restrictions to immigration and speech in US made it a crime for americans to print, utter, or publish any false, scandalous, malicious writing about the government
alien laws
authorized the president to deport "aliens" and permitted their arrest imprisonment and deportation during war time
The Virginia plan
Whiskey rebellion
Federalism
The division of powers between different levels of government.
British impressment
The British continued to kidnap american sailors. Washington sent John Jay to london to negotiate
British beliefs after 7 years war
They viewed the colonies as subordinates. They had spent billions on defending them, and thought they'd want to help pay the debt.
Battle of Bunker hill
British won, but had many casualties. They eventually abandoned Boston
The plan for representation favored by small states. It called for 1 house of Congress with each state getting equal representation.
Hamilton's financial plan
1) Establish the U.S. credit worthiness 2) Unify the states' debt 3) Create a national bank 4) Whiskey tax to pay for the revolution 5) Establish tariffs to protect american businesses
civic virtue
Townshend Acts
In opposing the stamp act, the colonists said trade should be regulated instead. Parliament passed the townshend acts and began taxing imports and exports.
Lexington and Concorde
British troops marched to take a militia's weapons. They we're beaten back and chased back to boston by militia minutemen
Britain agreed to abandon outposts on the western frontier. In return the U.S. would favor trade with Britian. However, the treaty failed to address the british kidnapping, and American hatred of Britian caused riots.
Congress would have 2 houses, one with equal representation and one with population based representation.
virginia and kentucky resolutions
drafted by thomas jefferson and james madison, claimed that alien and sedition acts were unconstitutional and overstepped federal authority under the constitition, and could therefore be nullified by the states
The idea that each representative in parliament represented the empire as a whole, and therefore, the colonies were represented.
