APUSH 1
The results of this conflict ended the period of salutary neglect and increased tensions between Britain and the colonists.
The French and Indian War/Seven Years War
This compromise resolved the issue of slavery as it pertains to representation
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise
Albany Congress, Stamp Act Congress, First Continental Congress have this in common
Demonstrate growing colonial unity
early psychological victory that demolished the idea of Redcoat invincibility
Bunker Hill
led to a meeting of 9 colonies in NYC, and a Declaration of Grievances that denied Parliament's right to tax the colonies internally (domestically)
The Stamp Act
The Great Compromise
What is the Senate would be equal for all states, but the House of Reps would be based on each state's population
first document to create a divide between territory that was free and territory that was slave
NJ, Hessians, Christmas
Battle of Trenton
Anti-Federalists refused to consider ratifying the Constitution without the inclusion of this significant item
The Bill of Rights
was a drastic departure from the intention of the Philadelphia Convention, it called for a MUCH STRONGER central govt with a bicameral legislature, and an executive branch to carry out national laws
turning point in the war for independence, as it convinced Louis XVI to go all in for the Americans
Saratoga
Washington Defeated, retreats across the Delaware River
Join or Die...
Albany Plan of Union
This movement included a range of ideas centered on the pursuit of happiness, sovereignty of reason, and advanced ideals such as liberty, progress, toleration, fraternity, constitutional government, and separation of church and state (aka religious freedom).
What is The Enlightenment
Largely ignoring the regulation and commerce of the colonies is called
Salutary neglect
At this battle, French naval aid was key to the British loss
Taxes imposed in 1767 on imports of paper, paint, lead, glass & tea.
Townshend Acts
HIS pamphlet, published in Jan 1776, was instrumental in convincing many Americans to support independence
Who is Thomas Paine
This conflict demonstrated the strength of the new federal govt under the Constitution
First shots fired of the American Revolution...
Lexington and Concord