Historical context + Causes
This period ended in 1763 after the British decided to reinforce the Navigation Acts.
What is salutary neglect?
This act placed a tax on most printed paper in the colonies.
What is the Stamp Act?
This group of people believed that a strong central government, proposed by the constitution, would limit democracy.
This person was commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.
George Washington
What is the Bank of the United States?
This war led to a period of salutary neglect ending in the American colonies.
What is the French and Indian War?
This act required the colonists to provide food and living quarters for British soldiers stationed in the colonies.
What is the Quartering Act?
The idea that women should be educated about politics in order to educate their children about it.
What is the Republican Motherhood?
This Enlightenment thinker influenced the American Revolution with his ideas about natural rights and the social contract.
Who is John Locke?
These three branches of government separated federal powers.
What are the legislative, executive, and judicial branches?
King George dismissed this document that pledged loyalty and requested protection of colonial rights.
What is the Olive Branch Petition?
This act asserted that the parliament had the right to tax and make laws for the colonies.
What is the Declaratory Act?
This armed uprising in Massachusetts was a result of debt crisis after the Revolutionary War.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
This Founding Father argued that the Constitution did not give the congress the power to create a bank.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Hamilton argued for a national bank by taking broader view of which part of the Constitution.
What is the "necessary and proper" clause?
Benjamin Franklin's plan for intercolonial government and defense
The Albany Plan of Union
In this act, British government organized Canadian land gained from France.
What is the Quebec Act?
What is the Indian Intercourse Act?
This diplomat secured the alliance between France and the American colonies during the Revolutionary War.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
Who is James Madison?
British government prohibited colonists from settling west of the Appalachians through this declaration.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
In this act, Parliament declared that the colonies were in rebellion with Britain.
What is the Prohibitory Act?
In this event, American delegates refused bribes from French ministers in negotiations during the French Revolution.
The XYZ affair
French minister who broke all the rules of diplomacy by appealing directly to the American to support the French Revolution
Who is "Citizen" Edmond Genêt?
a series of essays that urged the ratification of the Constitution
What are The Federalist Papers?