The middle ground
The areas where both colonists and native people would trade and coexist
Philadelphia convention
French revolution
Checks and balances
Different branches of government could check each other to prevent abuse of power.
Stamp act congress
First political parties
Divisions over neutrality in the French revolution, the Jay treaty, the financial plan, and existing sectionalism created the first political parties.
First contested election in American history, won by John Adams (Washington's vice president)
British impressment
The British continued to kidnap american sailors. Washington sent John Jay to london to negotiate
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
A dispute over a french fort spiraled into a global conflict. Indigenous tribes tried to play Britain and France off of each other.
Declaratory act
Parliament repealed the stamp act, but enacted the declaratory act, saying they could pass any law they wanted.
Annapolis convention
Common sense
Attacked the obstacles to independence. It was the best selling work in American history because it presented his ideas in a vernacular way.
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
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
republican motherhood
The Albany conference
Meeting between leaders of 7 colonies to create a plan for joint defense and administration of the colonies. "Join or die"
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 Virginia plan
The plan for representation favored by large states. It called for 2 houses with population based representation and a strong national government.
Jefferson and Hamilton agreed to pass Hamilton's financial plan in exchange for making Washington D.C. the Capital of the country
XYZ affair
Shay’s rebellion
Democratic Republicans
Weak national government
pinckney's treaty
Whiskey 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
Stamp act
All paper products sold in the colonies had to be stamped and pay a small tax. It spurred on revolutionary ideals.
Congress would have 2 houses, one with equal representation and one with population based representation.
Federalism
The division of powers between different levels of government.
Fries rebellion
