They viewed the colonies as subordinates. They had spent billions on defending them, and thought they'd want to help pay the debt.
They didn’t want it. Initially the revolution was a petition to get the same rights as other British citizens
George Washington's Presidency
Established many precedents for the office of the president. Created a cabinet-style government, appointed cabinet officials based on merit, and stepped down after 2 terms
Checks and balances
Age of passion
Politics was very negative with the rise of political parties, political violence, and deep political divisions
Failures of the articles of confederation
France and others wanted their debt paid back, yet the national government didn’t have money. States had individual economies that didn’t collaborate.
Democratic Republicans
Weak national government
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
The Albany conference
Meeting between leaders of 7 colonies to create a plan for joint defense and administration of the colonies. "Join or die"
Declaratory act
Sugar act
Shay’s rebellion
Farmers had to take debt because they weren’t getting paid. Their land was being repossessed so they rebelled and closed the courts. They used Republican ideals to justify it.
Federalists
The middle ground
The areas where both colonists and native people would trade and coexist
Thomas Gage
The new appointed governor of Massachusetts who began to strictly enforce parliaments laws
The plan for representation favored by large states. It called for 2 houses with population based representation and a strong national government.
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
civic virtue
the character of a good participant in a system of gov
Fries rebellion
Farmers in southeast Pennsylvania stopped paying taxes for the larger military. John Fries led a peaceful protest, but John Adams ordered federal troops to stop the protest, and they made mass arrests, assaulted newspaper editors, and almost executed John Fries.
Jefferson and Hamilton agreed to pass Hamilton's financial plan in exchange for making Washington D.C. the Capital of the country
Delegates met in New York to send the "declaration of rights & grievances" to the king. They also organized a boycott of British goods.
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
Virtual representation
The idea that each representative in parliament represented the empire as a whole, and therefore, the colonies were represented.
Annapolis convention
Secret meeting between delegates of 6 states to discuss how to fix the articles of confederation
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
Townshend Acts
XYZ affair
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.
How would the colonists win? George Washington would lead an army
How would they pay for it? New currency
Ethan Allen and the Green mountain boys surround fort Ticonderoga, steal it's cannons, and bring them back to Boston
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.
