The New Nation
Foreign Affairs
Great Britain
Key Vocabulary
Anything goes
100
This cause a Whiskey Rebellion to break out in Pennsylvania.
What is an excise tax on Whiskey?
100
The American victory in this battle convince France that formal intervention for the Americans had come.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
100
The ending of this with the enforcement of the Navigation Acts started the deterioration of Britain's relationship with her American colonies.
What is Salutary Neglect?
100
The idea that it was common sense that a larger body should not be governed by a smaller body.
Who is Thomas Paine?
100
The initial shots were fired at these events which cause King George the III to claim the colonies were in open rebellion.
What is Lexington and Concord?
200
This was the greatest weakness of the Articles of Confederation.
What is the inability to tax?
200
The Quasi War with France start do to this incident.
What is the XYZ affair?
200
The British claimed that every citizen through the British empire was represented in Parliament through this.
What is Virtual Representation?
200
This was the belief of creating a strong federal government through the constitution.
What is Federalism?
200
The was created to keep the Native Americans and colonists from coming in conflict with each other.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
300
This event convince many that there was a need to revise or abandon the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
300
Other than the two Stamp Act Congresses, this was created to damage British merchants in protest to the Stamp Act.
What are non-importation agreements?
300
The British finally repealed the Stamp Act but reasserted her authority through this act?
What is the Declaratory Act?
300
His ideas of Natural Rights help Jefferson write about "all men being created equal."
Who is John Locke?
300
This Act actually lowered the price of Tea.
What is the Tea Act?
400
The creation of the Sedition Acts threaten the protections given by this amendment to the constitution.
What is the first?
400
The British gave the American's generous terms under this treaty to drive a wedge between America and France after the revolution.
What is the Treaty of Paris in 1783?
400
This document was a final attempt to patch up the relationship with Britain and maintain loyalty to the crown.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
400
These were specific rights spelled out in the constitution after its initial creation.
What are the Bill of Rights?
400
The act of seizing American sailors off of ships to serve in the British or French navy is called this.
What is Impressment?
500
Alexander Hamilton justified the creation of the BUS through this in the Constitution.
What is the elastic clause?
500
This treaty gave American's the right to trade throughout the Mississippi River.
What is Pickney's Treaty?
500
This act was created to thwart trade with the French West Indies.
What is the Molasses Act?
500
Women were elevated to the keepers of the nations consciousness.
What is Republican Motherhood?
500
Washington issued this because he believed that the United States was too weak to involve itself in a major war.
What is the Neutrality Proclamation of 1793?
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