APUSH 1
The results of this conflict ended the period of salutary neglect and increased tensions between Britain and the colonists.
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?
Treaty signed in 1794 between the U.S. And Britain in which Britain sought to improve trade relations and agreed to withdraw from forts in the northwest territory
What is Jay's Treaty?
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, 1870 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 Washington's Farwell Address?
idea that women had a duty to shape the morals of future political leaders
What is republican motherhood
Act that created the Judiciary Branch of the U.S. government. It established a Supreme Court, with five justices and a chief judge, and additional district and circuit courts.
What is the Judiciary Act of 1789?
Turning point of the American Revolution. It was very important because it convinced the French to give the U.S. military support.
What is Saratoga?
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?
Last ditch effort by the colonists to prevent conflict with the British. The Continental Congress pledged loyalty to the crown while still trying to address the rights of the colonists. It was REJECTED by the British king.
Olive Branch Petition
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
Gave America all of Ohio after General Mad Anthony Wayne defeated the Indians at the Battle of Fallen Timbers
What is the Treaty of Greenville?
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
Native American uprising against the British, who were expanding into the Ohio Territory. They began attacking colonial settlements but were later suppressed by British troops.
What is Pontiac's Rebellion?
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?
This battle proved to be the decisive engagement of the American Revolution. The British surrender by Cornwallis forecast the end of British rule.
What is Yorktown?