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
civic virtue
Election of 1797
The division of powers between different levels of government.
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
In opposing the stamp act, the colonists said trade should be regulated instead. Parliament passed the townshend acts and began taxing imports and exports.
Connecticut compromise
Congress would have 2 houses, one with equal representation and one with population based representation.
12/13 states met to amend the articles of confederation. They eventually decided to draft a new constitution
Age of passion
Politics was very negative with the rise of political parties, political violence, and deep political divisions
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.
Democratic Republicans
Articles of confederation
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
The new appointed governor of Massachusetts who began to strictly enforce parliaments laws
Congress wanted king George to intervene on their behalf and end the violence. He didn’t read 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.
Declaration of Independence
Lexington and Concorde
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.
alien laws
authorized the president to deport "aliens" and permitted their arrest imprisonment and deportation during war time
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.
2nd Continental Congress
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
republican motherhood
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
Failures of the articles of confederation
Common sense
Annapolis convention
Secret meeting between delegates of 6 states to discuss how to fix the articles of confederation
The Albany conference
First political parties
Divisions over neutrality in the French revolution, the Jay treaty, the financial plan, and existing sectionalism created the first political parties.
British impressment
