The Problem of Empire
British policy of leaving the colonies alone as long as they were profitable.
What is salutary neglect?
General and Commander in Chief of Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
Intentionally weak, this document outlined the structure of the government between 1781 and 1788.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
The idea that the primary role of American women was to instill a sense of patriotic duty in their children.
What is Republican Motherhood?
President of the United States elected in 1800.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
British Law imposing taxes on all paper used in the colonies.
What is the Stamp Act of 1765
Country that aided the Continental Army in the American Revolution.
Who is France?
These were colonial supporters of a strong federal government.
Who are Federalists?
An 1789 revolution that was supported by most Americans because it abolished feudalism in favor of a constitutional monarchy.
What is the French Revolution?
Second President of the United States
Who is John Adams?
British law requiring colonists to feed and board his majesty's soldiers.
What is the Quartering Act of 1765?
Treaty that officially ended the Revolutionary War.
What is the Treaty of Paris (1783)?
These were opponents of the ratification of the Constitution. They feared that a powerful federal government would be out of touch with the needs of citizens.
Who are Antifederalists?
A bloodless revolution that occured when Thomas Jefferson, a Democratic Republican, succeeded Federalist John Adams as President of the United States.
What is the Revolution of 1800?
The first 10 Amendments to the Constitution are known as this.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Colonists-primarily merchants and - artisans who banded together to protest the Stamp act and other imperial reforms of the 1760s.
Who are the Sons of Liberty?
A military camp in which George Washington's army suffered horribly in the winter of 1777-1778.
What is Valley Forge?
A plan drafted by James Madison that proposed that a states representation in Congress be proportional to its population.
What is the Virginia Plan?
A series of laws known collectively passed in 1798 and that included new powers to deport foreigners as well as making it harder for new immigrants to vote.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
A land act that provided for orderly settlement and established a process by chich settled territories would become states.
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
Four British laws passed in 1774 meant to punish the colony of Massachussetts for the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Coercive Acts?
A 1779 proclamation that declared that any slave who deserted a rebel master would recieve protection, freedom, and land from Great Britain.
What is the Philipsburg Proclamation?
Plan that proposed that each state would recieve one vote in congress, regardless of population.
What is the New Jearsey Plan?
Resolutions of 1798 condemning the Alien and Sedtion Acts. The resolutions tested the idea that state legislatures could judge the constitutionality of federal laws and nullify them.
What are the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions?
A 1795 treaty between the United States and Britain that accepted Britain's right to stop neutral ships. In return, it allowed Americans to summit claims for illegal seizures and required the Brtish to remove troops from the Northwest Territory.
What is Jay's Treaty?