Series of punitive measurements passed in retaliation for the Boston Tea Party, closing the Port of Boston, and expanding the Quartering Act to allow for the lodging of soldiers in private homes.
What is Intolerable Acts
100
American colonists who opposed the Revolution and maintained their loyalty to the King
What is Loyalists
100
this party follows a strict interpretation of the constitution and favors a small government. They want the US to be a nation of small, independent farmers.
What is Democratic-Republicans
100
A period of radical social and political upheaval in French and European history. The absolute monarchy that had ruled France for centuries collapsed in three years.
What is French Revolution
100
A constitutional arrangement whereby power is divided between national and sub national governments
What is Federalism
200
Patriotic groups that played a central role in agitating against the Stamp Act and enforcing non-importation agreements.
What is Sons of Liberty
200
Formal pronouncement of independence drafted by Thomas Jefferson and approved by Congress. The declaration allowed Americans to appeal for foreign aid and served as an inspiration for later revolutionary movements worldwide.
What is Declaration of Independence
200
A feature of the Constitution that requires each of the three branches of government executive, legislative, and judicial-to be relatively independent of the others so that one cannot control the others.
What is separation of powers
200
Negotiated by Chief Justice John Jay in an effort to avoid war with Britain, the treaty included a British promise to evacuate outposts outposts on U.S. soil and pay damages for seized American vessels, in exchange for which Jay bound the United States to repay pre-Revolutionary War debts and to abide by Britain's restrictive trading policies toward France.
What is Jay's Treaty
200
Nine-year war between the British and the French in North America.
What is French and Indian War
300
The first bloodshed of the Amercan Revolution, as British guards at the Boston Customs House opened fire on a crowd killing five americans
What is Boston Massacre
300
Turning point of the American Revolution. It was very important because it convinced the French to give the U.S. military support.
What is Battle of Saratoga
300
The document written in 1787 and ratified in 1788 that sets forth the institutional structure of the U.S. government and the tasks these institutions perform.
What is U.S. Constitution
300
Armed march of Philadelphia Bay by Scotts-Irish frontiersmen in protest against the Quaker establishment's lenient policies toward Native Americans.
What is Paxton Boys
300
an argument that people have rights, such as the right to life, liberty, and property, that have a foundation independent of the laws of any particular society.
What is natural rights philosophy
400
1. Closed Boston port until destroyed tea paid for. 2. stopped town meetings. 3. Appointed a military government for Massachusetts. 4. Trials of government officials will be in England.
What is Coercive Acts (1774)
400
Commander of the Continental Army
What is George Washington
400
Proponents of the 1787 Constitution, they favored a strong national government
What is Federalists
400
Bloody campaign waged by Ottawa chief Pontiac to drive the British out of Ohio Country. It was brutally crushed by British troops, who resorted to distributing blankets infected with smallpox as means to put down the rebellion.
What is Pontiac's Rebellion
400
Ideal of family organization and female behavior after the American Revolution that stressed the role of women in guiding family members toward republican virtue.
What is republican motherhood
500
English monarch at the time of the revolution. He was the main opposition for the colonies due to his stubborn attitude and unwillingness to hear out colonial requests/grievances.
What is George III
500
Last major battle of the Revolutionary War. Cornwallis and his troops were trapped in the Chesapeake Bay by the French fleet. He was sandwiched between the French navy and the American army. He surrendered October 19, 1781.
What is Battle of Yorktown
500
Eighteenth-century British political commentators who agitated against political corruption and emphasized the threat to liberty posed by arbitrary power. Their writings shaped American political thought and made colonists especially alert to encroachments on their rights.
What is Radical Whigs
500
armed uprising of western Massachusetts debtors seeking lower taxes and an end to property foreclosures. Though quickly put down, the insurrection inspired fears of "mob rule" among leading Revolutionaries.
What is Shay's Rebellion
500
Term prevalent in seventeenth-century England and America referring to certain historically established rights, beginning with the rights of the Magna Carta, that all English subjects were understood to have.