The division of powers between different levels of government.
The plan for representation favored by large states. It called for 2 houses with population based representation and a strong national government.
republican motherhood
the idea that women needed to become educated so that they could educate the new generation
France and others wanted their debt paid back, yet the national government didn’t have money. States had individual economies that didn’t collaborate.
The Albany conference
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.
Olive branch petition
Congress wanted king George to intervene on their behalf and end the violence. He didn’t read it.
Declaration of Independence
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
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.
The idea that each representative in parliament represented the empire as a whole, and therefore, the colonies were represented.
The British continued to kidnap american sailors. Washington sent John Jay to london to negotiate
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.
French revolution
George Washington's Presidency
Stamp act
The middle ground
The areas where both colonists and native people would trade and coexist
alien laws
Philadelphia convention
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
First political parties
Divisions over neutrality in the French revolution, the Jay treaty, the financial plan, and existing sectionalism created the first political parties.
virginia and kentucky resolutions
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
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.
Whiskey rebellion
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
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
Townshend Acts
Ethan Allen and the Green mountain boys surround fort Ticonderoga, steal it's cannons, and bring them back to Boston
civic virtue
the character of a good participant in a system of gov
Sugar act
Reduced the tax on molasses, but strengthened the court system to end smuggling, making many wealthy smugglers angry.
The new appointed governor of Massachusetts who began to strictly enforce parliaments laws
