First political parties
Divisions over neutrality in the French revolution, the Jay treaty, the financial plan, and existing sectionalism created the first political parties.
republican motherhood
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.
How would the colonists win? George Washington would lead an army
How would they pay for it? New currency
pinckney's treaty
between US and spain, defined border US and spanish florida, guranteed US navigation rights in mississippi river
Olive branch petition
Congress wanted king George to intervene on their behalf and end the violence. He didn’t read it.
Politics was very negative with the rise of political parties, political violence, and deep political divisions
British impressment
The British continued to kidnap american sailors. Washington sent John Jay to london to negotiate
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
virginia and kentucky resolutions
Stamp act
All paper products sold in the colonies had to be stamped and pay a small tax. It spurred on revolutionary ideals.
Virtual representation
The idea that each representative in parliament represented the empire as a whole, and therefore, the colonies were represented.
Attacked the obstacles to independence. It was the best selling work in American history because it presented his ideas in a vernacular way.
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 troops marched to take a militia's weapons. They we're beaten back and chased back to boston by militia minutemen
Britain didn't want to spend more money defending the colonies from the natives, so they banned settling beyond the Appalachian mountains
7 years war
Federalism
Election of 1797
Connecticut compromise
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
7 years war
Colonial attitude towards independence
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.
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.
the character of a good participant in a system of gov
Strong national government
Different branches of government could check each other to prevent abuse of power.
The plan for representation favored by small states. It called for 1 house of Congress with each state getting equal representation.
