Road to Revolution
The results of this conflict ended the period of salutary neglect and increased tensions between Britain and the colonists.
What is the French and Indian War?
This is the name of the treaty that ended the American Revolution.
What is the Treaty of Paris of 1783?
Group of founding fathers who insisted on adding a Bill of Rights to the Constitution before it would be ratified.
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
This is the major accomplishment of Thomas Jefferson's presidency.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Refers to the forced removal of the five "civilized" Native American tribes of the Southeast to reservations in the Oklahoma territories under President Jackson
What is the Trail of Tears?
This law required that a stamp be placed on all paper goods in the colonies, beginning the calls for taxation without representation.
What is the Stamp Act?
This conflict demonstrated the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation and prompted the Constitutional Convention
What is Shays' Rebellion?
Compromise that determined representation of states in the House and Senate.
What is the Great Compromise or Connecticut Compromise?
This is the name of the political party to which Thomas Jefferson belonged.
What are the Democratic-Republicans?
Man-made waterway completed in 1825 that helped connect Eastern and Western markets.
What is the Erie Canal?
His pamphlet, published in Jan 1776, was instrumental in convincing many Americans to support independence
What is Thomas Paine?
Victory at this battle convinced the French to support American's war for independence against Great Britian.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This compromise resolved the issue of slavery as it pertains to representation
What is the 3/5th Compromise?
This SCOTUS Case established judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
An agreement proposed by Henry Clay in 1820 to resolve conflicts over slavery as new states are admitted to the Union.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The order that prohibited Americans from settling past the Appalachian Mountains
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This was a major accomplishment of the Articles of Confederation.
What is the Ordinance of 1787?
Acts passed under President Adams that restricted the activities of foreign residents in the country and limited freedom of speech and of the press, particularly when it was critical of the president or the government.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798?
This meeting lead to the downfall of the Federalist Party.
What is the Hartford Convention?
In 1828, this law was passed to support Northern manufacturers, but it distressed many Southern planters who depended on foreign trade for their livelihoods.
What is the Tariff of Abomination?
Last ditch effort by the colonists to prevent conflict with the British. The Continental Congress pledged loyalty to the crown while still trying to address the rights of the colonists. It was REJECTED by the British king.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
These are 3 weaknesses of the Articles of the Confederations.
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This led to a quasi war with France under President Adams.
What is the XYZ Affair?
These are two causes of the War of 1812?
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impressment of American sailors
Great Britain provided arms and support to Native Americans in the western frontiers who were attacking American settlers.
to limit Britain's influence in North America, to especially get them out of Canada
Great Britain had violated American sovereignty by refusing to surrender western forts as promised in the Treaty of Paris after the Revolutionary War
Great Britain issued a series of trade restrictions designed to disrupt American trade with France.
An executive order issued by President Andrew Jackson requiring that payment for the purchase of public lands be made exclusively in gold or silver. This eventually led to the Panic of 1837.
What is the Specie Circular ?