Ethan Allen and the Green mountain boys surround fort Ticonderoga, steal it's cannons, and bring them back to Boston
Boston massacre
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
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
Declaration of Independence
Written by Thomas Jefferson. Declared the colonies an independent country from Britain. Included a statement of intent, list of grievances, and a conclusion that dissolved ties with Britain
The division of powers between different levels of 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.
The areas where both colonists and native people would trade and coexist
7 years war
A dispute over a french fort spiraled into a global conflict. Indigenous tribes tried to play Britain and France off of each other.
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
Failures of the articles of confederation
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
Britain didn't want to spend more money defending the colonies from the natives, so they banned settling beyond the Appalachian mountains
sedition act
Jay treaty
republican motherhood
All paper products sold in the colonies had to be stamped and pay a small tax. It spurred on revolutionary ideals.
alien laws
authorized the president to deport "aliens" and permitted their arrest imprisonment and deportation during war time
Age of passion
2nd Continental Congress
How would the colonists win? George Washington would lead an army
How would they pay for it? New currency
Meeting between leaders of 7 colonies to create a plan for joint defense and administration of the colonies. "Join or die"
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
civic virtue
the character of a good participant in a system of gov
Weak national government
virginia and kentucky resolutions
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
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.
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.
Olive branch petition
Congress wanted king George to intervene on their behalf and end the violence. He didn’t read it.
Attacked the obstacles to independence. It was the best selling work in American history because it presented his ideas in a vernacular way.
Connecticut compromise
Congress would have 2 houses, one with equal representation and one with population based representation.
