APUSH Unit 3 Review duel

Secret meeting between delegates of 6 states to discuss how to fix the articles of confederation

Reduced the tax on molasses, but strengthened the court system to end smuggling, making many wealthy smugglers angry.

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.

Parliament repealed the stamp act, but enacted the declaratory act, saying they could pass any law they wanted.

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

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.

Battle of Bunker hill

sedition act

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

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.

republican motherhood the idea that women needed to become educated so that they could educate the new generation

Connecticut compromise

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

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

Boston massacre

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

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

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

They viewed the colonies as subordinates. They had spent billions on defending them, and thought they'd want to help pay the debt.

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

George Washington's Presidency

Election of 1797 First contested election in American history, won by John Adams (Washington's vice president)

Ethan Allen and the Green mountain boys surround fort Ticonderoga, steal it's cannons, and bring them back to Boston

Federalism The division of powers between different levels of government.

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.

Politics was very negative with the rise of political parties, political violence, and deep political divisions

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

Democratic Republicans Weak national government

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

Shay’s rebellion

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.

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

Checks and balances

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

Age of passion

Boston massacre

Townshend Acts

Declaratory act

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

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.

Sugar act Reduced the tax on molasses, but strengthened the court system to end smuggling, making many wealthy smugglers angry.

Federalism The division of powers between different levels of government.

Thomas Gage The new appointed governor of Massachusetts who began to strictly enforce parliaments laws

French revolution

The New Jersey plan

pinckney's treaty

Olive branch petition

Weak national government

Jay treaty 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.

British impressment

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

Virtual representation

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.

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.

Annapolis convention Secret meeting between delegates of 6 states to discuss how to fix the articles of confederation

the character of a good participant in a system of gov

Colonial attitude towards independence

Stamp act congress

Ethan Allen and the Green mountain boys surround fort Ticonderoga, steal it's cannons, and bring them back to Boston

France and others wanted their debt paid back, yet the national government didn’t have money. States had individual economies that didn’t collaborate.

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