Delegates met in New York to send the "declaration of rights & grievances" to the king. They also organized a boycott of British goods.
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.
civic virtue
the character of a good participant in a system of gov
pinckney's treaty
Annapolis convention
Articles of confederation
The New Jersey plan
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
authorized the president to deport "aliens" and permitted their arrest imprisonment and deportation during war time
Thomas Gage
Battle of Bunker hill
Jay treaty
First political parties
Divisions over neutrality in the French revolution, the Jay treaty, the financial plan, and existing sectionalism created the first political parties.
Meeting between leaders of 7 colonies to create a plan for joint defense and administration of the colonies. "Join or die"
the idea that women needed to become educated so that they could educate the new generation
A dispute over a French fort spiraled into a global conflict. Indigenous tribes tried to play Britain and France off of each other.
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
Jefferson and Hamilton agreed to pass Hamilton's financial plan in exchange for making Washington D.C. the Capital of the country
Failures of the articles of confederation
France and others wanted their debt paid back, yet the national government didn’t have money. States had individual economies that didn’t collaborate.
Virtual representation
The idea that each representative in parliament represented the empire as a whole, and therefore, the colonies were represented.
British beliefs after 7 years war
The middle ground
The areas where both colonists and native people would trade and coexist
All paper products sold in the colonies had to be stamped and pay a small tax. It spurred on revolutionary ideals.
The division of powers between different levels of government.
First contested election in American history, won by John Adams (Washington's vice president)
Connecticut compromise
British troops marched to take a militia's weapons. They we're beaten back and chased back to boston by militia minutemen
Checks and balances
Different branches of government could check each other to prevent abuse of power.
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
