Townshend Acts
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
civic virtue
12/13 states met to amend the articles of confederation. They eventually decided to draft a new constitution
The Virginia plan
Congress would have 2 houses, one with equal representation and one with population based representation.
The Albany conference
Meeting between leaders of 7 colonies to create a plan for joint defense and administration of the colonies. "Join or die"
British won, but had many casualties. They eventually abandoned Boston
Sugar act
Reduced the tax on molasses, but strengthened the court system to end smuggling, making many wealthy smugglers angry.
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.
The British continued to kidnap american sailors. Washington sent John Jay to london to negotiate
the Compromise of 1790
Jefferson and Hamilton agreed to pass Hamilton's financial plan in exchange for making Washington D.C. the Capital of the country
Federalists
Federalism
Colonial attitude towards independence
alien laws
Lexington and Concorde
The middle ground
The areas where both colonists and native people would trade and coexist
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.
The idea that each representative in parliament represented the empire as a whole, and therefore, the colonies were represented.
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
Attacked the obstacles to independence. It was the best selling work in American history because it presented his ideas in a vernacular way.
The new appointed governor of Massachusetts who began to strictly enforce parliaments laws
Ethan Allen and the Green mountain boys surround fort Ticonderoga, steal it's cannons, and bring them back to Boston
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
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
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.
7 years war
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.
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.
