Problems of Empire
British Law imposing taxes on all paper used in the colonies.
What is the Stamp Act of 1765
General & Commander in Chief of Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
Intentionally weak, this document outlined the structure of the government between 1781 and 1788.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
The idea that the primary role of American women was to instill a sense of patriotic duty in their children.
What is Republican Motherhood?
The Leader of the Democratic-Republican Political Party.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
British law requiring colonists to feed and board his majesty's soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act of 1765?
The country who join America as an ally in 1789 after the Battle of Saratoga.
Who is France?
These were colonial supporters of a strong federal government.
Who are Federalists?
An uprising put down by Washington, himself, leading a small military signifying that the Constitution could maintain order.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion.
The first 10 Amendments to the Constitution. Without them some states would not ratify the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
A series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts
The "Shot Heard Round the World" was fired here.
What is Lexington
Opponents to the ratification of the Constitution. They feared that a powerful federal government would become tyrannical.
Who are Antifederalists?
A 1789 event that was supported by most Democratic-Republicans causing tension in America.
What is the French Revolution?
A conflict between Britain and France over the Ohio River Valley.
What is The French and Indian War
Colonists-primarily merchants and - artisans who banded together to protest imperial reforms of the 1760s.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
The final major battle of the Revolutionary War marking the beginning of the end for the British.
What is Yorktown?
To sign or give formal consent to (a treaty, contract, or agreement), making it officially valid.
What is Ratify?
Two laws passed in 1798 and that included new powers of the president to deport foreigners along with imprisoning people who spoke negatively about the American Government.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
Second President of the United States
Who is John Adams?
British policy of leaving the colonies alone as long as they were profitable.
What is salutary neglect?
The year the Treaty of Paris was signed ending the Revolutionary War.
What is 1783?
The people who were sent or authorized to represent others at the Constitutional Convention.
What are Delegates?
These resolutions, passed in 1789, tested the idea that state legislatures could judge the constitutionality of federal laws and nullify them.
What are the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions?
A land act signed in 1787 that provided for orderly settlement of new territories, also, outlawing Slavery in that territory.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?