A dispute over a french fort spiraled into a global conflict. Indigenous tribes tried to play Britain and France off of each other.
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.
Sugar act
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
Jefferson and Hamilton agreed to pass Hamilton's financial plan in exchange for making Washington D.C. the Capital of the country
Federalism
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
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.
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.
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
Hamilton's financial plan
Stamp act congress
Delegates met in New York to send the "declaration of rights & grievances" to the king. They also organized a boycott of British goods.
Philadelphia convention
Stamp act
All paper products sold in the colonies had to be stamped and pay a small tax. It spurred on revolutionary ideals.
France and others wanted their debt paid back, yet the national government didn’t have money. States had individual economies that didn’t collaborate.
The new appointed governor of Massachusetts who began to strictly enforce parliaments laws
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.
Declaratory act
Parliament repealed the stamp act, but enacted the declaratory act, saying they could pass any law they wanted.
Ethan Allen and the Green mountain boys surround fort Ticonderoga, steal it's cannons, and bring them back to Boston
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.
The Albany conference
The middle ground
The areas where both colonists and native people would trade and coexist
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
Connecticut compromise
Congress would have 2 houses, one with equal representation and one with population based representation.
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
pinckney's treaty
between US and spain, defined border US and spanish florida, guranteed US navigation rights in mississippi river
republican motherhood
the idea that women needed to become educated so that they could educate the new generation
How would the colonists win? George Washington would lead an army
How would they pay for it? New currency
civic virtue
the character of a good participant in a system of gov
Lexington and Concorde
