Proclamation of 1763
pinckney's treaty
between US and spain, defined border US and spanish florida, guranteed US navigation rights in mississippi river
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.
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.
First political parties
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.
Checks and balances
Different branches of government could check each other to prevent abuse of power.
2nd Continental Congress
How would the colonists win? George Washington would lead an army
How would they pay for it? New currency
The Albany conference
British impressment
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.
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.
Federalism
The division of powers between different levels of government.
authorized the president to deport "aliens" and permitted their arrest imprisonment and deportation during war time
Attacked the obstacles to independence. It was the best selling work in American history because it presented his ideas in a vernacular way.
Stamp act
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
Jay treaty
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
Thomas Gage
Democratic Republicans
Weak national government
drafted by thomas jefferson and james madison, claimed that alien and sedition acts were unconstitutional and overstepped federal authority under the constitition, and could therefore be nullified by the states
Election of 1797
First contested election in American history, won by John Adams (Washington's vice president)
Ethan Allen and the Green mountain boys surround fort Ticonderoga, steal it's cannons, and bring them back to Boston
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
Boston massacre
Sugar act
civic virtue
the character of a good participant in a system of gov
Lexington and Concorde
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.
