The New Jersey planThe plan for representation favored by small states. It called for 1 house of Congress with each state getting equal representation.
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FederalistsStrong national government
Townshend ActsIn opposing the stamp act, the colonists said trade should be regulated instead. Parliament passed the townshend acts and began taxing imports and exports.
Checks and balancesDifferent branches of government could check each other to prevent abuse of power.
civic virtue
Boston massacre
Weak national government
Secret meeting between delegates of 6 states to discuss how to fix the articles of confederation
12/13 states met to amend the articles of confederation. They eventually decided to draft a new constitution
Age of passionPolitics was very negative with the rise of political parties, political violence, and deep political divisions
Shay’s rebellionFarmers 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.
Federalism
British beliefs after 7 years warThey viewed the colonies as subordinates. They had spent billions on defending them, and thought they'd want to help pay the debt.
A dispute over a French fort spiraled into a global conflict. Indigenous tribes tried to play Britain and France off of each other.
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.
authorized the president to deport "aliens" and permitted their arrest imprisonment and deportation during war time
between US and spain, defined border US and spanish florida, guranteed US navigation rights in mississippi river
Failures of the articles of confederationFrance and others wanted their debt paid back, yet the national government didn’t have money. States had individual economies that didn’t collaborate.
Jay treatyBritain 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.
Connecticut compromiseCongress would have 2 houses, one with equal representation and one with population based representation.
The Virginia plan
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First political partiesDivisions over neutrality in the French revolution, the Jay treaty, the financial plan, and existing sectionalism created the first political parties.
Thomas GageThe new appointed governor of Massachusetts who began to strictly enforce parliaments laws
Declaratory actParliament repealed the stamp act, but enacted the declaratory act, saying they could pass any law they wanted.
Virtual representation
Proclamation of 1763Britain didn't want to spend more money defending the colonies from the natives, so they banned settling beyond the Appalachian mountains
Whiskey rebellionviolent 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
Stamp act
The middle groundThe areas where both colonists and native people would trade and coexist
Ethan Allen and the Green mountain boys surround fort Ticonderoga, steal it's cannons, and bring them back to Boston
civic virtue
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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.
Olive branch petition
between US and spain, defined border US and spanish florida, guranteed US navigation rights in mississippi river
Articles of confederationLooked 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
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 British continued to kidnap american sailors. Washington sent John Jay to london to negotiate
Philadelphia convention
republican motherhood
The Albany conference
France and others wanted their debt paid back, yet the national government didn’t have money. States had individual economies that didn’t collaborate.
Boston massacreParliament 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
Thomas GageThe new appointed governor of Massachusetts who began to strictly enforce parliaments laws
The New Jersey planThe plan for representation favored by small states. It called for 1 house of Congress with each state getting equal representation.
Reduced the tax on molasses, but strengthened the court system to end smuggling, making many wealthy smugglers angry.
In opposing the stamp act, the colonists said trade should be regulated instead. Parliament passed the townshend acts and began taxing imports and exports.
First political partiesDivisions over neutrality in the French revolution, the Jay treaty, the financial plan, and existing sectionalism created the first political parties.
Annapolis convention
Jefferson and Hamilton agreed to pass Hamilton's financial plan in exchange for making Washington D.C. the Capital of the country
Declaratory actParliament repealed the stamp act, but enacted the declaratory act, saying they could pass any law they wanted.
Democratic RepublicansWeak national government
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7 years war
2nd Continental CongressHow would the colonists win? George Washington would lead an army
How would they pay for it? New currency
sedition actapplied 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
First contested election in American history, won by John Adams (Washington's vice president)
Connecticut compromiseCongress would have 2 houses, one with equal representation and one with population based representation.
7 years warA dispute over a French fort spiraled into a global conflict. Indigenous tribes tried to play Britain and France off of each other.
British troops marched to take a militia's weapons. They we're beaten back and chased back to boston by militia minutemen
alien laws
The idea that each representative in parliament represented the empire as a whole, and therefore, the colonies were represented.