APUSH Unit 3 Review duel

2nd Continental Congress How would the colonists win? George Washington would lead an army How would they pay for it? New currency

the Compromise of 1790

French revolution Ambassador from France came to America to encourage Americans to side with the French. Washington declared neutrality, but the ambassador remained in America to not get beheaded back home.

Stamp act All paper products sold in the colonies had to be stamped and pay a small tax. It spurred on revolutionary ideals.

Thomas Gage

Connecticut compromise Congress would have 2 houses, one with equal representation and one with population based representation.

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.

British impressment The British continued to kidnap american sailors. Washington sent John Jay to london to negotiate

Boston massacre

virginia and kentucky resolutions 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

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

Weak national government

Townshend Acts In opposing the stamp act, the colonists said trade should be regulated instead. Parliament passed the townshend acts and began taxing imports and exports.

The middle ground

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.

Philadelphia convention

Divisions over neutrality in the French revolution, the Jay treaty, the financial plan, and existing sectionalism created the first political parties.

Age of passion

civic virtue the character of a good participant in a system of gov

Declaratory act

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.

They didn’t want it. Initially the revolution was a petition to get the same rights as other British citizens

George Washington's Presidency

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

alien laws authorized the president to deport "aliens" and permitted their arrest imprisonment and deportation during war time

British beliefs after 7 years war

Stamp act congress

7 years war

Jay treaty

Checks and balances Different branches of government could check each other to prevent abuse of power.

alien laws authorized the president to deport "aliens" and permitted their arrest imprisonment and deportation during war time

Federalism

republican motherhood

Attacked the obstacles to independence. It was the best selling work in American history because it presented his ideas in a vernacular way.

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.

First political parties Divisions over neutrality in the French revolution, the Jay treaty, the financial plan, and existing sectionalism created the first political parties.

The middle ground The areas where both colonists and native people would trade and coexist

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.

Annapolis convention

The idea that each representative in parliament represented the empire as a whole, and therefore, the colonies were represented.

Jay treaty

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

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

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

The Albany conference Meeting between leaders of 7 colonies to create a plan for joint defense and administration of the colonies. "Join or die"

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

All paper products sold in the colonies had to be stamped and pay a small tax. It spurred on revolutionary ideals.

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.

12/13 states met to amend the articles of confederation. They eventually decided to draft a new constitution

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

Congress would have 2 houses, one with equal representation and one with population based representation.

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

Weak national government

British troops marched to take a militia's weapons. They we're beaten back and chased back to boston by militia minutemen

Fries rebellion

Olive branch petition Congress wanted king George to intervene on their behalf and end the violence. He didn’t read it.

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