APUSH Unit 3 Review duel

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

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

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

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

Declaratory act Parliament repealed the stamp act, but enacted the declaratory act, saying they could pass any law they wanted.

Thomas Gage

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

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.

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 beliefs after 7 years war They viewed the colonies as subordinates. They had spent billions on defending them, and thought they'd want to help pay the debt.

Age of passion

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

Jay treaty

They didn’t want it. Initially the revolution was a petition to get the same rights as other British citizens

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

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

Federalists Strong national government

Declaration of Independence

Articles of confederation

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

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

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

Checks and balances

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

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

Boston massacre

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.

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

Democratic Republicans Weak national government

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

Parliament repealed the stamp act, but enacted the declaratory act, saying they could pass any law they wanted.

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.

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

Battle of Bunker hill

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.

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.

Jay treaty

First political parties Divisions over neutrality in the French revolution, the Jay treaty, the financial plan, and existing sectionalism created the first political parties.

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

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.

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

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

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

Hamilton's financial plan 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

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

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

2nd Continental Congress 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

7 years war

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.

Federalists

Election of 1797

7 years war

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

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.

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

The Albany conference

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