Your Daily Constitutional
This describes how the three branches have different powers including powers to limit each other such as the presidential veto.
What are checks and balances?
Signed in Belgium in 1814, not Paris for once, it concluded America's War of 1812 with Great Britain.
What is the Treaty of Ghent?
Required colonists to obtain a British stamp on all papers with things printed on them such as newspapers and contracts.
What is the Stamp Act?
What are Lexington and Concord?
What is Nat Turner's Rebellion?
They wanted to retain some power and cultural identity in the face of a strong federal government. This 10th Amendment guaranteed it.
What are the states?
Signed in 1763, it was the agreement that concluded the results of the Seven Years' War.
What is the Treaty of Paris (1763)?
Passed in 1773, it was meant to help the British East India Company survive by sending the massive amount of tea from its London warehouses to America.
What is the Tea Act?
Prior to the American Revolution, the American colonists teamed up with the British in this war to fight against the French and their Native American allies.
What is the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War?
Rebellion by Pennsylvania farmers, who were war veterans who had not been paid for their services and were being forced to pay taxes on their land anyway.
What is Shayes Rebellion?
Rather than having direct elections by the people, the Constitution established this body to elect the President.
What is the electoral college?
The line established and its year by which Britain banned American colonists from moving west of the Appalachians. Many colonists ignored it and went west anyway.
What is the Proclamation Line of 1763?
This became an effective technique used by the colonists more than once when they wanted Parliament to repeal acts.
What are boycotts (of British goods)?
While American soldiers faced many hardships and insufficient or no pay during the war, they volunteered and were not this - which means when the government forces people to enlist in the military.
What is drafted or draftees?
Seventeenth century rebellion by western Virginia farmers angry about how the governor would not send the militia to protect them against Native American attacks.
What is Bacon's Rebellion (1676-1677)?
The Constitutional Convention of 1787 did NOT originally establish these explicit guarantees of citizens' rights against the federal government. These came later.
What is the Bill of Rights?
In this 1783 treaty, Great Britain formally recognized the independence of their former American colonies and ceded most of its territory east of the Mississippi River to the United States.
What is the Treaty of Paris (1783)?
These four acts are grouped together as they were aimed to punish Boston. While the Americans called them the Intolerable Acts, this was their original name.
What are the Coercive Acts?
Main reason why America wanted official recognition by foreign countries, like France, during its War for Independence.
In 1791, farmers in Pennsylvania began this violent tax protest over the excise tax on distilled liquor.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
The Virginia delegation wanted representation by population, while the New Jersey delegation wanted each state to have equal representation in the legislature. This was the deal that was made.
What is the Great Compromise of 1787?
Woodrow Wilson pushed for a "peace without victors", a lasting peace with this treaty. Unfortunately, Britain and France were more focused on punishing and crippling Germany.
What is the Treaty of Versailles (1919)?
While Parliament repealed the Stamp Act due to colonial pressures, it passed this to remind the American colonists that it had taxing authority over them just like in Great Britain.
What is the Declaratory Act?
The French negotiated a treaty of alliance with the United States in 1778 following the defeat of British General Burgoyne at this battle.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
Rebellion in China in 1900, in which the US and many other nations sent an international military force to put down and save the Westerners in the region.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?