Acts
In 1765, this act was created to impose a tax on all paper documents
Stamp Act
Massachusetts rebellion led by Daniel Shays. The participants, mostly farmers, organized a protest to demand tax and debt relief. While the farmers did not reach their goal, their protest helped encourage the need for a stronger government.
Shay's Rebellion
Founder of Federalists party
Alexander Hamilton
Treaty negotiated by Chief Justice John Jay that sought to settle the issues that arose between the United States and Great Britain following American independence. While it proved to be unpopular among Americans, it did help prevent further altercations between the two countries.
Jay's Treaty
First President of the newly established US
George Washington
In 1764, this act was created to raise revenue from the American colonies to help offset deficit in the funding of the American-Indian war.
The sugar act
Uprising of back-country farmers in protest of the excise tax on whiskey. Washington quickly suppressed the uprisings, demonstrating the new power of the government.
Whiskey Rebellion
Founder of Anti-federalist party
Patrick Henry
The act of giving official certification to a law or treaty
A Patriot from Massachusetts. Coined the phrase “Taxation without representation is tyranny,” which is popularly abbreviated as “no taxation without representation.”
James Otis
The 4 acts that led to the American Revolution were the Sugar act, Stamp Act, Townshend act and this last act
Intolerable acts
A Conflict between the English colonists and the French with their Native American allies. This resulted from the expansion of the French into the Ohio River valley, which conflicted with the land claims of the English.
French and Indian war or 7 years war
This party arose from Anti-Federalists, who believed in a limited federal government but greater rights for individual states.
Democratic-Republicans
Treaty with Spain that gave the U.S the right to transport goods on the Mississippi River and store the goods in the New Orleans territory.
Pinckney's Treaty
An English-born political activist in the American and French Revolutions. Author of Common Sense.
Thomas Paine
This act granted the company the right to ship its tea directly to the colonies without first landing it in England, and to commission agents who would have the sole right to sell tea in the colonies.
The tea act
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. Strengthened the British view that they needed to maintain strong control over the colonies.
Pontiac Rebellion
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
Treaty which capped off the French and Indian War. The British took control of French Canada and Spanish Florida, effectively removing France’s presence from North America.
Treaty of Paris
Founding Father. A New Jersey statesman who put forth the New Jersey Plan at the Constitutional Convention in rebuttal of the Virginia Plan.
William Paterson
These Acts were passed by Parliament in March 1766 that stated that the British government had complete legislative power over the colonies.
Declaratory Acts
This war was fought between the 13 colonies and the British. The motive of the 13 colonies was that they wanted to separate from British Rule.
Revolutionary war
Group led by Samuel Adams that launched violent attacks against those who supported the British or their tax policies.
Sons and Daughters of Liberty
A 1795 treaty in which 12 Native American tribes ceded vast areas of the Old Northwest to the federal government, including most of what is now Indiana and Ohio. In return, the tribes of the Miami Confederacy were given an initial payment of $20,000 and an annual payment of $9,000. Ended the Northwest Indian War.
Treaty of Grenville
British Prime Minister who passed the Currency, Sugar, Quartering, and Stamp Acts. He felt the colonists were being asked to pay only their fair share of the debt from the French and Indian War.
George Grenville