Constitution
The principle of government which separate branches are empowered to prevent actions by other branches and are induced to share power.
What is checks and balances?
Wanted to encourage settlement in the Northwest territory by allowing the purchase of lands in the region.
What is Public Land Act?
Required colonial government to provide and pay for food and shelter of troops in their colony.
What is Quartering Act?
The person who rode to Lexington to alert colonial militia of British invasion before the Battles of Lexington and Concord.
Who is Paul Revere?
Issued by George Washington stating the official announcement of US government policy toward the belligerents during the war between Britain and French.
What is Proclamation of Neutrality (1793)?
An agreement was reached regarding the counting of slaves in determining a state's population.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
Established policy for selling the western lands and provided for setting aside one section of land in each township for public education.
What is Land Ordinance Act of 1785?
Tax passed by the British to pay for the Seven Years War (French and Indian War)
What is Sugar Act?
Signaled the start of the American Revolution. Marked a major military victory for Americans and displayed American strength.
What is Battles of Lexington and Concord?
It resolved territorial disputes between Spain and the US and granted American ships the right to free navigation of the Mississippi River as well as duty-free transport through the port of New Orleans, then under Spanish control.
It settled the matter of representation in the federal government; it was created to ensure that all states had representatives in Congress regardless of their size/population.
What is the Great Compromise?
Set rules for creating new states in the territory between the Great Lakes and the Ohio River.
What is Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
Passed the same day the Stamp Act was repealed; parliament can make laws binding the American colonies.
What is Declaratory Act?
A crucial turning point in American Revolution because it persuaded the French to recognize American independence.
What is Battle of Saratoga?
An agreement by the United States and Great Britain that helped avert war between the two nations. The British removed their troops from the Ohio Valley.
What is Jay's Treaty (1794)?
Delegates wanted to create national trade laws and interstate commerce. Hamilton used the forum to issue a call for states to meet the next spring to revise the Articles of Confederation.
What is Annapolis Convention?
The conflict between the US and the Northwest Indian Confederation for control of the Northwest Territory.
What is Battle of Fallen Timbers?
Also called the Intolerable Acts, enacted because of the Boston Tea Party that restricted trade and increased British control in Boston.
What is Coercive Acts?
British surrendered to George Washington as French and American forces trapped the British here. British surrender ended the American Revolutionary War.
What is Battle of Yorktown?
A French representative who attempted to contradict the Neutrality Proclamation by organizing armies to attack British and Spanish territories.
What is Citizen Genet Affair?
Addressed the problems of having a weak central government under the Articles of Confederation. Led to the creation of a constitution for the United States.
What is Constitutional Convention?
Indian tribes ceded strategic areas and control of most of the river crossings in the Old Northwest Territory to the US.
What is Treaty of Greenville?
Documents that allowed customs officials to enter any ship or building that they suspected for any reason might hold smuggled goods.
What is Writs of Assistance?
A Revolutionary War hero who led a small force of frontiersmen through the freezing waters to capture British-held Fort Sackville in February 1779.
Who is George Rogers Clark?
President John Adams dispatched three ministers to France in 1797 to negotiate a commercial agreement to protect U.S. shipping.
What is XYZ Affair?