alien laws
authorized the president to deport "aliens" and permitted their arrest imprisonment and deportation during war time
Common sense
Parliament repealed the stamp act, but enacted the declaratory act, saying they could pass any law they wanted.
George Washington's Presidency
2nd Continental Congress
How would the colonists win? George Washington would lead an army
How would they pay for it? New currency
Democratic Republicans
Weak national government
Townshend Acts
Checks and balances
between US and spain, defined border US and spanish florida, guranteed US navigation rights in mississippi river
Ethan Allen and the Green mountain boys surround fort Ticonderoga, steal it's cannons, and bring them back to Boston
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
the idea that women needed to become educated so that they could educate the new generation
The division of powers between different levels of government.
The Albany conference
Meeting between leaders of 7 colonies to create a plan for joint defense and administration of the colonies. "Join or die"
12/13 states met to amend the articles of confederation. They eventually decided to draft a new constitution
The plan for representation favored by large states. It called for 2 houses with population based representation and a strong national government.
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.
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
Battle of Bunker hill
British won, but had many casualties. They eventually abandoned Boston
They viewed the colonies as subordinates. They had spent billions on defending them, and thought they'd want to help pay the debt.
Shay’s rebellion
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
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
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
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
Declaration of Independence
Divisions over neutrality in the French revolution, the Jay treaty, the financial plan, and existing sectionalism created the first political parties.
Olive branch petition
Congress wanted king George to intervene on their behalf and end the violence. He didn’t read it.
Election of 1797
First contested election in American history, won by John Adams (Washington's vice president)
Colonial attitude towards independence
They didn’t want it. Initially the revolution was a petition to get the same rights as other British citizens
