The end of this British political policy was one of the primary reasons for the Revolutionary War.
What is salutary neglect?
This famous future leader led an expedition into the Ohio Valley to reassert British claims over the region.
Who is George Washington?
This plan proposed one general government be formed in America that includes all of the colonies to help the British counter French Expansion. It was inspired by the Iroquois Confederacy and named after the New York colonial capital.
What is the Albany Plan of Union?
Collection of laws that included the Boston Harbor Act, the Quartering Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, and the Administration of Justice Act?
The Coercive/Intolerable Acts
This established the principle that territories could become states as their populations grew, and not colonies of the original 13 states.
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1784?
This plan called for the "supremacy of national authority," and based representation on population.
What is the Virginia plan?
This international scandal involved the French taking American sailors hostage, asking for a bribe for them to be released, and resulted in the Quasi-War.
What is the XYZ Affair?
Skirmishes at these two towns are often thought of as the beginning of the American Revolution in 1775.
What are Lexington and Concord?
This power left to the states would have been disastrous in the face of a military invasion.
What is the power to raise and maintain an army?
George Washington warned about these two topics in his farewell address.
What are foreign intervention and political parties?
This granted Britain the following territories: French Canada, all French territory east of the Mississippi River, Spanish Florida and recent conquests in Africa and India.
What is the Treaty of Paris, 1763?
American victory at this battle, thanks to France's aid, led to an end to the war.
What is the battle of Yorktown?
This conflict in Massachusetts was about exorbitant tax increases that caused mobs of angry farmers to close the courts to prevent foreclosure on their farms.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
This law restricted speech criticizing the government and tightened restrictions on immigrants.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?