7 Years War
The idea that the government should regulate the economy in order to increase national power.
What is Mercantilism?
These are the 3 main causes of the american revolution.
What is American Nationalism, Intolerable acts, and lack of representation?
This major historical event was sparked by the development of a new American Cultural Identity
What is the American Revolution?
The Articles of Confederation served as America’s first …
What is a structure of government?
These were the major branches of government established and outlined by the constitution.
What are the Executive, Judicial, and Legislative branches.
What ended the 7 Years War?
What is the Treaty of Paris 1763
This group declared the independence of The United States of America
What is the Constitutional Congress?
This major intellectual period in history helped bolster American ideals about self-governance through pamphlets and books spread all over the Atlantic World.
What is the Enlightenment?
The articles allow for _ vote for each state in the Congress of the Confederation.
What is one?
This system was established by the constitution with the goal of regulating power among different branches of government, making sure no one branch of government could overpower the others.
What is the checks and balance system?
A religious revival that impacted the English colonies in America during the 1730s and 1740s.
What is the Great Awakening?
This battle was the first major victory on the side of the Americans
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
These were ways in which the war of 1812 developed the formation of a new American Cultural Identity
What is the increase in patriotism, the sense that Americans could fight for themselves and stand up for themselves, something for Americans to work together as a country towards?
This conflict, fought mostly by poor farmers in Massachusetts who were upset about high taxes, led colonial leaders to reexamine the effectiveness of the Articles.
What is Shays’ Rebellion?
This meeting of state delegates was first organized with the purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation. It ended up creating the American Constitution.
What is the Constitutional Convention
The idea that the main task of government was to protect citizens' natural rights; life, liberty, and property.
What is Liberalism?
According to Thomas Paine, these people should make the laws
What are citizens?
These are 3 factors that lead to the development of a new American Identity.
What is The War of 1812/Salutary Neglect/Creation of a democratic voting system/the Revolutionary War/the distance between America and Britain?
While the central government provided permanent defense, states could not have a _____ ______ under the Articles.
What is a standing army?
These were the major branches of government established and outlined by the constitution.
What are the Executive, Judicial, and Legislative branches.
Was launched in 1763 by a loose confederation of American Indian tribes who were dissatisfied with British policies in the Great Lakes region following the French and Indian War.
What is Pontiac's Rebellion?
This specific treaty ended the Revolutionary War
What is the Treaty of Paris of 1783?
These 3 factors hindered the development of a new American identity
What are disagreements between states (north and south), loyalists, the government argued within itself and couldn’t get stuff done?
Under the Articles, _____ would serve as the final court between disputing states.
What is Congress?
The constitution’s longevity and everlasting effectiveness in the American government since its birth can be attributed to these important aspects.
What is protecting the rights of the people and flexibility?