Colonial-British Issues
The results of this conflict ended the period of salutary neglect and increased tensions between Britain and the colonists.
The Seven Years War
A formal statement that expressed the colonies’ desire to separate from the British and form their own government. It was drafted by Thomas Jefferson and adopted by Congress on July 4, 1776.
Declaration of Independence
Anti-Federalists refused to consider ratifying the Constitution without the inclusion of this significant item
The Bill of Rights
People who opposed the ratification of the Constitution and rejected the idea of a strong central government. They were generally in favor of states’ rights and thought a bill of rights was necessary to protect individual freedoms.
Anti-federalists
Washington warned of entangling foreign alliances and political parties in his what?
Washington's Farewell Address
An act passed by the British parliament in 1756 that raised revenue from the American colonies to pay off French and Indian war debt by a duty in the form of a stamp required on all newspapers and legal or commercial documents
The Stamp Act
This battle proved to be the decisive engagement of the American Revolution. The British surrender by Cornwallis forecast the end of British rule.
Battle of Yorktown
The original constitution of the United States created by the Second Continental Congress.
Articles of Confederation
The set of measures to combine Federal and State debt, buy all bonds and have government issue new ones to help with national debt, impose a tariff on imports, and create a National Bank
Hamilton's Financial Plan
Enacted in 1787, established a system for setting up governments in the western territories and a path to statehood on an equal footing with the original 13 states, banning slavery in the territories
Northwest Ordinance
Largely ignoring the regulation and commerce of the colonies is called
Salutary neglect
Peace settlement in which the British formally recognized American independence and granted them the land west to the Mississippi and fishing rights in Newfoundland.
Treaty of Paris (1783)
Compromise reached at the Constitutional Convention that established proportional representation of the states in the House of Representatives but equal representation in the Senate.
The Great Compromise
Treaty signed during Washington's presidency between the U.S. And Britain in which Britain sought to improve trade relations and agreed to withdraw from forts in the northwest territory
Jay's Treaty
Turning point of the American Revolution. It was very important because it convinced the French to give the U.S. military support.
The Battle of Saratoga
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.
Olive Branch Petition
An event that occurred in 1770 when British soldiers opened fire on a group of colonists who were protesting the taxes imposed by the British.
Boston Massacre
Agreement reached at the Constitutional Convention that declared enslaved people would count as a portion of a person for voting purposes.
Three-Fifths Compromise
This conflict demonstrated the strength of the new federal govt under the Constitution
Whiskey Rebellion
Written anonymously by Jefferson and Madison in response to the Alien and Sedition Acts, they declared that states could nullify federal laws that the states considered unconstitutional
Virginia & Kentucky Resolutions
Native American uprising against the British, who were expanding into the Ohio Territory. They began attacking colonial settlements but were later suppressed by British troops.
Pontiac's Rebellion
His pamphlet, published in Jan 1776, was instrumental in convincing many Americans to support independence
Thomas Paine
This plan called for a legislature divided into two bodies (the Senate and the House of Representatives) with proportional representation and was favored by the larger states
Virginia Plan
This negotiation between the U.S. and Indigenous groups that gave the U.S. all of the Ohio River Valley
Treaty of Greenville
a system of government in which power is divided between the central government and the states
What is Federalism?