Thomas Gage
The new appointed governor of Massachusetts who began to strictly enforce parliaments laws
The plan for representation favored by small states. It called for 1 house of Congress with each state getting equal representation.
The Virginia plan
Connecticut compromise
Congress would have 2 houses, one with equal representation and one with population based representation.
Lexington and Concorde
Age of passion
Politics was very negative with the rise of political parties, political violence, and deep political divisions
Sugar act
Reduced the tax on molasses, but strengthened the court system to end smuggling, making many wealthy smugglers angry.
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
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.
Different branches of government could check each other to prevent abuse of power.
Declaration of Independence
the character of a good participant in a system of gov
Divisions over neutrality in the French revolution, the Jay treaty, the financial plan, and existing sectionalism created the first political parties.
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
Democratic Republicans
Weak national government
Virtual representation
2nd Continental Congress
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.
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.
Election of 1797
the Compromise of 1790
Jefferson and Hamilton agreed to pass Hamilton's financial plan in exchange for making Washington D.C. the Capital of the country
The areas where both colonists and native people would trade and coexist
Federalists
Strong national government
alien laws
authorized the president to deport "aliens" and permitted their arrest imprisonment and deportation during war time
Proclamation of 1763
Philadelphia convention
pinckney's treaty
between US and spain, defined border US and spanish florida, guranteed US navigation rights in mississippi river
Ethan Allen and the Green mountain boys surround fort Ticonderoga, steal it's cannons, and bring them back to Boston
Olive branch petition
Congress wanted king George to intervene on their behalf and end the violence. He didn’t read it.
sedition act
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
