Hamilton's financial plan1) 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
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In opposing the stamp act, the colonists said trade should be regulated instead. Parliament passed the townshend acts and began taxing imports and exports.
FederalismThe division of powers between different levels of government.
pinckney's treatybetween US and spain, defined border US and spanish florida, guranteed US navigation rights in mississippi river
Olive branch petitionCongress wanted king George to intervene on their behalf and end the violence. He didn’t read it.
FederalistsStrong national government
Articles of confederation
7 years war
The middle groundThe areas where both colonists and native people would trade and coexist
Declaratory act
2nd Continental Congress
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.
First contested election in American history, won by John Adams (Washington's vice president)
Boston massacre
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.
Attacked the obstacles to independence. It was the best selling work in American history because it presented his ideas in a vernacular way.
Britain didn't want to spend more money defending the colonies from the natives, so they banned settling beyond the Appalachian mountains
Annapolis conventionSecret meeting between delegates of 6 states to discuss how to fix the articles of confederation
The plan for representation favored by small states. It called for 1 house of Congress with each state getting equal representation.
the idea that women needed to become educated so that they could educate the new generation
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.
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 actAll paper products sold in the colonies had to be stamped and pay a small tax. It spurred on revolutionary ideals.
First political parties
Fries rebellionFarmers 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.
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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
Thomas Gage
Ethan Allen and the Green mountain boys surround fort Ticonderoga, steal it's cannons, and bring them back to Boston
Sugar actReduced the tax on molasses, but strengthened the court system to end smuggling, making many wealthy smugglers angry.
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
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The plan for representation favored by large states. It called for 2 houses with population based representation and a strong national government.
Ethan Allen and the Green mountain boys surround fort Ticonderoga, steal it's cannons, and bring them back to Boston
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
republican motherhoodthe idea that women needed to become educated so that they could educate the new generation
Congress wanted king George to intervene on their behalf and end the violence. He didn’t read it.
alien laws
Colonial attitude towards independenceThey didn’t want it. Initially the revolution was a petition to get the same rights as other British citizens
Common senseAttacked the obstacles to independence. It was the best selling work in American history because it presented his ideas in a vernacular way.
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
the Compromise of 1790Jefferson and Hamilton agreed to pass Hamilton's financial plan in exchange for making Washington D.C. the Capital of the country
First political parties
The British continued to kidnap american sailors. Washington sent John Jay to london to negotiate
7 years war
Townshend Acts
FederalismThe division of powers between different levels of government.
civic virtuethe character of a good participant in a system of gov
Thomas Gage
Connecticut compromiseCongress would have 2 houses, one with equal representation and one with population based 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
12/13 states met to amend the articles of confederation. They eventually decided to draft a new constitution
Stamp act
British troops marched to take a militia's weapons. They we're beaten back and chased back to boston by militia minutemen
Sugar actReduced the tax on molasses, but strengthened the court system to end smuggling, making many wealthy smugglers angry.
Fries rebellion
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XYZ affair
virginia and kentucky resolutionsdrafted 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
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
Hamilton's financial plan1) 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
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