Stamp act congress
George Washington's Presidency
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.
the idea that women needed to become educated so that they could educate the new generation
Strong national government
The middle ground
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
Battle of Bunker hill
Boston massacre
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.
authorized the president to deport "aliens" and permitted their arrest imprisonment and deportation during war time
Virtual representation
The idea that each representative in parliament represented the empire as a whole, and therefore, the colonies were represented.
British troops marched to take a militia's weapons. They we're beaten back and chased back to boston by militia minutemen
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
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.
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.
Congress would have 2 houses, one with equal representation and one with population based representation.
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.
Olive branch petition
Congress wanted king George to intervene on their behalf and end the violence. He didn’t read it.
The division of powers between different levels of government.
2nd Continental Congress
How would the colonists win? George Washington would lead an army
How would they pay for it? New currency
pinckney's treaty
between US and spain, defined border US and spanish florida, guranteed US navigation rights in mississippi river
Townshend Acts
Sugar act
Reduced the tax on molasses, but strengthened the court system to end smuggling, making many wealthy smugglers angry.
Stamp act
All paper products sold in the colonies had to be stamped and pay a small tax. It spurred on revolutionary ideals.
Whiskey rebellion
Colonial attitude towards independence
They didn’t want it. Initially the revolution was a petition to get the same rights as other British citizens
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 plan for representation favored by large states. It called for 2 houses with population based representation and a strong national government.
The new appointed governor of Massachusetts who began to strictly enforce parliaments laws
