Chapter 5
This battle in 1777 helped to persuade France and Spain to support America’s pursuit of independence from Britain.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
Congress commissioned the printing of paper money during the Revolution to help pay for the war, and one of the side effects of the distribution of this currency was this.
What is inflation?
This prohibited slavery in the Old Northwest?
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
Washington issued this in April 1793 in an attempt to avoid the drama that was unleashed by the French Revolution.
What is the Neutrality Proclamation?
What are the Louisiana Purchase and the Embargo Act of 1807?
Part of Britain’s motivation for passing this act was to offer religious protection to the recently conquered French Canadian inhabitants as a trade-off for gaining their loyalty on political questions of governance and rule.
What is the Quebec Act?
Loyalists in the Revolutionary War were also called this.
What are Tories?
Many felt that this event was the last straw in demonstrating the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shays' Rebellion?
This 1797 event poisoned America’s relations with France during the Adams administration. By 1798, the United States and France were engaged in a “quasi-war” at sea, with French ships seizing American vessels in the Caribbean and a newly enlarged American navy harassing the French.
What is the X, Y, Z, affair?
This Shawnee leader, who had refused to sign the Treaty of Greenville in 1795, expounded a militant message as American settlers moved further west in the lead up to the War or 1812.
Who is Tecumseh?
Controversy over these inspired the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which forbids general search warrants in the United States of America.
What are writs of assistance?
In this colony nearly the entire prewar elite opposed independence, fearing that severing the tie with Britain would lead to rule by the “rabble” and to attacks on property. After the war, a vacuum of political leadership opened the door for the rise of a new pro-independence leaders.
What is Pennsylvania?
The delegation from this state to the Constitutional Convention had a plan for a strong central government and a two-house legislature apportioned by population.
What is Virginia? (Virginia Plan)
This allowed the deportation of persons from abroad deemed “dangerous” by federal authorities. (must be specific)
What is the Alien Act?
This was the first landmark decision of the Marshall Court that established judicial review?
What is Marbury v. Madison?
Proponents of this idea claimed that although trade regulation was a legal means for Parliament to raise revenue, direct internal taxes such as the Stamp Act were an illegitimate extension of parliamentary power.
What is "no taxation without representation?"
This is the belief in the existence of a supreme being, specifically of a creator who does not intervene in the universe. Followers of this hoped to erect a “wall of separation” that would free politics and the exercise of the intellect from religious control.
What is Deism?
To generate support for the Constitution, these 3 men composed a series of eighty-five essays that appeared in newspapers under the pen name Publius and were gathered as a book, The Federalist.
Who are Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay?
These attacked the Sedition Act as an unconstitutional violation of the First Amendment. One, written by Madison, called on the federal courts to protect free speech. The second went further, asserting that states could nullify laws of Congress that violated the Constitution until that portion was deleted.
What are the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions?
This meeting was a direct cause of the end of the Federalist Party.
What is the Hartford Convention?
About 200,000 Native Americans lived east of the Mississippi River in 1790. As sites of conflict in the War of Independence moved westward, like white Americans, Indians divided in allegiance. Name one of the Indian groups who split their support between the British and the Americans.
Who are the Cherokee and/or the Iroquois?
This was a legal doctrine whereby, upon marriage, a woman's legal rights and obligations were subsumed by those of her husband.
What is coverture?
This "other minded" state was the last to ratify the Constitution.
What is Rhode Island?
The bombardment of this location in Baltimore Harbor in September 1814 was of minor military importance, but it is remembered as the inspiration for the “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
Who is Fort McHenry?
This was the second independent republic in the Western Hemisphere.
What is Haiti?