APUSH Unit 3 Review duel

pinckney's treaty

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

Age of passion

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

Annapolis convention 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.

sedition act

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

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

Battle of Bunker hill British won, but had many casualties. They eventually abandoned Boston

Federalism The division of powers between different levels of government.

Declaration of Independence

the Compromise of 1790

Hamilton's financial plan

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.

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

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

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

British impressment

Democratic Republicans Weak national government

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.

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.

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

7 years war

Declaratory act

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.

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.

virginia and kentucky resolutions

Lexington and Concorde

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

Democratic Republicans Weak national government

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.

Jefferson and Hamilton agreed to pass Hamilton's financial plan in exchange for making Washington D.C. the Capital of the country

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

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

Connecticut compromise

The plan for representation favored by large states. It called for 2 houses with population based representation and a strong national government.

Articles of confederation

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

Thomas Gage

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

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.

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

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

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.

Declaration of Independence

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

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

First political parties

pinckney's treaty between US and spain, defined border US and spanish florida, guranteed US navigation rights in mississippi river

French revolution

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Common sense

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