They didn’t want it. Initially the revolution was a petition to get the same rights as other British citizens
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.
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.
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.
Townshend Acts
Declaratory act
Parliament repealed the stamp act, but enacted the declaratory act, saying they could pass any law they wanted.
Age of passion
Politics was very negative with the rise of political parties, political violence, and deep political divisions
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.
France and others wanted their debt paid back, yet the national government didn’t have money. States had individual economies that didn’t collaborate.
XYZ affair
Stamp act congress
Thomas Gage
The new appointed governor of Massachusetts who began to strictly enforce parliaments laws
republican motherhood
between US and spain, defined border US and spanish florida, guranteed US navigation rights in mississippi river
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
British impressment
The British continued to kidnap american sailors. Washington sent John Jay to london to negotiate
Common sense
Attacked the obstacles to independence. It was the best selling work in American history because it presented his ideas in a vernacular way.
The plan for representation favored by small states. It called for 1 house of Congress with each state getting equal representation.
First political parties
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
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
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
12/13 states met to amend the articles of confederation. They eventually decided to draft a new constitution
Secret meeting between delegates of 6 states to discuss how to fix the articles of confederation
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 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
civic virtue
the character of a good participant in a system of gov
Congress would have 2 houses, one with equal representation and one with population based representation.
