APUSH 1
The results of this conflict ended the period of salutary neglect and increased tensions between Britain and the colonists.
What was the effect of the French and Indian War/Seven Years War?
Agreement reached upon at the Constitutional Convention that declared that slaves in the south would count as three-fifths of a person for voting purposes.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise
Anti-Federalists refused to consider ratifying the Constitution without the inclusion of this significant item
The Bill of Rights
A formal statement that expressed the colonies’ desire to separate from the British and form their own government. It was drafted by Thomas Jefferson and adopted by Congress on July 4, 1776.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The original constitution of the United States created by the Second Continental Congress.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
a system of government in which power is divided between the central government and the states
What is Federalism?
An act passed by the British parliament in 1756 that raised revenue from the American colonies to pay off French and Indian war debt by a duty in the form of a stamp required on all newspapers and legal or commercial documents
What is the The Stamp Act?
Compromise reached at the Constitutional Convention that established proportional representation of the states in the House of Representatives but equal representation in the Senate. Solved the dispute over the adoption of the Virginia Plan or the New Jersey Plan.
What is The Great Compromise?
Built into the constitution, these restrictions on each branch ensure that no group in the government can have too much power.
What are checks and balances?
Written anonymously by Jefferson and Madison in response to the Alien and Sedition Acts, they declared that states could nullify federal laws that the states considered unconstitutional
What is the Virginia & Kentucky resolutions?
Enacted in 1787, established a system for setting up governments in the western territories and a path to statehood on an equal footing with the original 13 states, banning slavery in the territories
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
An event that occurred on March 5, 1970 when British soldiers opened fire on a group of colonists who were protesting the taxes imposed by the British.
What is the Boston Massacre?
Peace settlement in which the British formally recognized American independence and granted them the land west to the Mississippi and fishing rights in Newfoundland.
What is the Treaty of Paris (1783) ?
Washington warned of entangling foreign alliances and political parties in his what?
What is the significance of Washington's Farwell Address?
idea that women had a duty to shape the morals of future political leaders
What is republican motherhood
A group of colonists who lived in Colonial America that were unhappy with the practices of the British Crown. They formed in order to defend the colonists from further injustices at the hands of Great Britain and to combat any further taxation they deemed unfair.
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
France
People who opposed the ratification of the Constitution and rejected the idea of a strong central government. They were generally in favor of states’ rights and thought a bill of rights was necessary to protect individual freedoms.
Who were the anti-federalists?
She was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for challenging the church and gender roles within the church.
Who was Anne Hutchinson?
This movement included a range of ideas centered on the pursuit of happiness, sovereignty of reason, and advanced ideals such as liberty, progress, toleration, fraternity, constitutional government, and separation of church and state (aka religious freedom).
What is The Enlightenment
This was established to stop colonists from settling west of the Appalachian mountains in order to avoid conflict with Native Americans
What was the Proclamation of 1763?
This conflict demonstrated the strength of the new federal govt under the Constitution
Largely ignoring the regulation and commerce of the colonies is called
Salutary neglect
Benjamin Franklin’s plan to create a centralized government for the Thirteen Colonies. It failed when only 7 colonies sent representatives. However, it did mark the first effort at achieving colonial unity.
What is the Albany Plan?
was the set of measures to combine Federal and State debt, buy all bond and have government issue new ones to help with national debt, impose a tariff on imports, and create a National Bank
What is Hamilton's Financial Plan?
HIS pamphlet, published in Jan 1776, was instrumental in convincing many Americans to support independence
Who is Thomas Paine
This plan called for a legislature divided into two bodies (the Senate and the House of Representatives) with proportional representation and was favored by the larger states
What is the VA Plan
This was an early example of self-government in the colonies. It included a group of elected officials in a southern colony prior to the American Revolution.
What was the Virginia House of Burgesses?
During the Revolutionary War, she wrote letters to her husband describing life on the homefront, urged her husband to remember America's women in the new government, advocated for full citizenship
Who is Abigail Adams?
Armed rebellion in Virginia colony (1677) that exposed the weaknesses of the indentured servant system and led to a shift towards slave labor
Bacon's Rebellion