Politics/War
What was the Seven Years War.
What was Mercantalism
The ideology of John Stuart Mill and Adam Smith.
What is Liberalism?
Who is George Washington
1767 parliamentary measures that taxed tea and other commodities, and established a Board of Customs Commissioners and colonial vice-admiralty courts.
What is Townshend Acts.
Clash between British soldiers and a Boston mob, March 5, 1770, in which five colonists were killed.
What is the Boston Massacre.
Proposed by the first secretary of the treasury, Alexander Hamilton, the bank opened in 1791 and operated until 1811 to issue a uniform currency, make business loans, and collect tax monies.
What is the Bank of the United States.
A system of government where power is constitutionally divided between a central authority and regional government
What is Federalism
Second President of the United States; father of sixth President
Who is John Adams?
The ideology that emerged as a result of American independence where women played an indispensable role by training future citizens.
What is Republican Motherhood.
The turning point battle of the Revolution, which made France agree to sign the Franco-American Alliance.
What is Battle of Saratoga.
An economic ideology that prioritizes competition and free market.
What was Laissez-Faire
The philosophy that depicts the universe as a machine that God has taken a step back from.
What is Deism
Father of Laissez-Faire economics; Author of Wealth of Nations
Who is Adam Smith?
Affair in which French foreign minister Talleyrand's three anonymous agents demanded payments to stop French plundering of American ships in 1797; refusal to pay the bribe was followed by two years of undeclared sea war with France
What is the XYZ Affair
A plan proposed by Franklin that was later adopted under the philosophy "Federalism."
What is the Albany Plan of Union.
Relied on so-called "Triangle-trade"
What was the Transatlantic Slave Trade
A Protestant Revival brought about from loosening social bonds from industrialism and westward expansion.
What was the Second Great Awakening.
Who is Thomas Paine?
Meeting of New England Federalists on December 15, 1814, to protest the War of 1812; proposed seven constitutional amendments
What is the Hartford Convention.
The armed uprising in Massachusetts protesting high taxes and economic injustice. Also exposed a flaw of the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shay's Rebellion.
This anti-British action occurred that had to do with imported products.
What is the Non-consumption agreement (American boycott of British goods).
Many American Enlightenment thinkers like Franklin agreed with this Lockian Ideology, in his "A Letter Concerning __________, that argued that government can't judge the rightness or wrongness of opposing religious doctrines.
Who is John Jay?
The idea that the American colonies, although they had no actual representative in Parliament, were "virtually" represented by all members of Parliament.
What is virtual representation.