Checks and balances
Different branches of government could check each other to prevent abuse of power.
7 years war
Britain didn't want to spend more money defending the colonies from the natives, so they banned settling beyond the Appalachian mountains
Federalists
Strong national government
pinckney's treaty
Declaratory act
Election of 1797
First contested election in American history, won by John Adams (Washington's vice president)
Sugar act
Reduced the tax on molasses, but strengthened the court system to end smuggling, making many wealthy smugglers angry.
All paper products sold in the colonies had to be stamped and pay a small tax. It spurred on revolutionary ideals.
Thomas Gage
2nd Continental Congress
Connecticut compromise
Congress would have 2 houses, one with equal representation and one with population based representation.
Failures of the articles of confederation
Olive branch petition
republican motherhood
Age of passion
Politics was very negative with the rise of political parties, political violence, and deep political divisions
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.
The Albany conference
Attacked the obstacles to independence. It was the best selling work in American history because it presented his ideas in a vernacular way.
British won, but had many casualties. They eventually abandoned Boston
British troops marched to take a militia's weapons. They we're beaten back and chased back to boston by militia minutemen
Jay treaty
Britain agreed to abandon outposts on the western frontier. In return the U.S. would favor trade with Britian. However, the treaty failed to address the british kidnapping, and American hatred of Britian caused riots.
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
Divisions over neutrality in the French revolution, the Jay treaty, the financial plan, and existing sectionalism created the first political parties.
Ethan Allen and the Green mountain boys surround fort Ticonderoga, steal it's cannons, and bring them back to Boston
Philadelphia convention
12/13 states met to amend the articles of confederation. They eventually decided to draft a new constitution
alien laws
authorized the president to deport "aliens" and permitted their arrest imprisonment and deportation during war time
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
The areas where both colonists and native people would trade and coexist
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.
