The plan for representation favored by large states. It called for 2 houses with population based representation and a strong national government.
Jay treaty
George Washington's Presidency
Established many precedents for the office of the president. Created a cabinet-style government, appointed cabinet officials based on merit, and stepped down after 2 terms
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.
7 years war
How would the colonists win? George Washington would lead an army
How would they pay for it? New currency
Federalism
The division of powers between different levels of government.
Federalists
Strong national government
Politics was very negative with the rise of political parties, political violence, and deep political divisions
pinckney's treaty
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.
Divisions over neutrality in the French revolution, the Jay treaty, the financial plan, and existing sectionalism created the first political parties.
Stamp act
All paper products sold in the colonies had to be stamped and pay a small tax. It spurred on revolutionary ideals.
Ethan Allen and the Green mountain boys surround fort Ticonderoga, steal it's cannons, and bring them back to Boston
alien laws
authorized the president to deport "aliens" and permitted their arrest imprisonment and deportation during war time
Olive branch petition
Congress wanted king George to intervene on their behalf and end the violence. He didn’t read it.
The idea that each representative in parliament represented the empire as a whole, and therefore, the colonies were represented.
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.
French revolution
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
Declaration of Independence
Election of 1797
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
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.
Townshend Acts
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.
Battle of Bunker hill
Philadelphia convention
12/13 states met to amend the articles of confederation. They eventually decided to draft a new constitution
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
Connecticut compromise
Congress would have 2 houses, one with equal representation and one with population based representation.
