Declaratory act
Parliament repealed the stamp act, but enacted the declaratory act, saying they could pass any law they wanted.
Federalists
Written by Thomas Jefferson. Declared the colonies an independent country from Britain. Included a statement of intent, list of grievances, and a conclusion that dissolved ties with Britain
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
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.
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.
Divisions over neutrality in the French revolution, the Jay treaty, the financial plan, and existing sectionalism created the first political parties.
civic virtue
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.
between US and spain, defined border US and spanish florida, guranteed US navigation rights in mississippi river
Age of passion
Politics was very negative with the rise of political parties, political violence, and deep political divisions
The middle ground
The areas where both colonists and native people would trade and coexist
virginia and kentucky resolutions
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.
Delegates met in New York to send the "declaration of rights & grievances" to the king. They also organized a boycott of British goods.
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
Shay’s rebellion
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
alien laws
authorized the president to deport "aliens" and permitted their arrest imprisonment and deportation during war time
Sugar act
Britain didn't want to spend more money defending the colonies from the natives, so they banned settling beyond the Appalachian mountains
7 years war
Thomas Gage
The new appointed governor of Massachusetts who began to strictly enforce parliaments laws
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
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
Ethan Allen and the Green mountain boys surround fort Ticonderoga, steal it's cannons, and bring them back to Boston
Colonial attitude towards independence
Annapolis convention
George Washington's Presidency
