Declaratory act
Parliament repealed the stamp act, but enacted the declaratory act, saying they could pass any law they wanted.
Checks and balances
British troops marched to take a militia's weapons. They we're beaten back and chased back to boston by militia minutemen
Declaration of Independence
A dispute over a French fort spiraled into a global conflict. Indigenous tribes tried to play Britain and France off of each other.
Thomas Gage
The new appointed governor of Massachusetts who began to strictly enforce parliaments laws
The Virginia plan
Virtual representation
The idea that each representative in parliament represented the empire as a whole, and therefore, the colonies were represented.
Proclamation of 1763
Britain didn't want to spend more money defending the colonies from the natives, so they banned settling beyond the Appalachian mountains
Stamp act congress
Delegates met in New York to send the "declaration of rights & grievances" to the king. They also organized a boycott of British goods.
Democratic Republicans
How would the colonists win? George Washington would lead an army
How would they pay for it? New currency
Reduced the tax on molasses, but strengthened the court system to end smuggling, making many wealthy smugglers angry.
Secret meeting between delegates of 6 states to discuss how to fix the articles of confederation
Common sense
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
The New Jersey plan
The plan for representation favored by small states. It called for 1 house of Congress with each state getting equal representation.
Congress would have 2 houses, one with equal representation and one with population based representation.
Philadelphia convention
Articles of confederation
Looked to balance national coordination and states rights to prevent tyranny. It featured a unicameral legislature, but the federal government had no money and no military
Parliament sent 1,000 troops to boston to enforce the townshend acts. Protesters began throwing snowballs, and eventually rocks at a group of soldiers. Someone fired a shot, and the soldiers killed 5 protesters
Olive branch petition
Ambassador from France came to America to encourage Americans to side with the French. Washington declared neutrality, but the ambassador remained in America to not get beheaded back home.
Stamp act
French and british continued to kidnap american sailors, so Adams sent ministers to negotiate. When they arrived, 3 agents demanded a bribe just to speak to the foreign minister. John Adams almost declared war.
alien laws
authorized the president to deport "aliens" and permitted their arrest imprisonment and deportation during war time
Battle of Bunker hill
British won, but had many casualties. They eventually abandoned Boston
George Washington's Presidency
The Albany conference
Meeting between leaders of 7 colonies to create a plan for joint defense and administration of the colonies. "Join or die"
violent tax protest from 1791-1794.
the whiskey was the first tax imposed on a domestic product by president Washington to pay for the war. It unfairly burdened poor farmers west of the Appalachian mountains because they couldn't do business anymore
